Sunday, July 22, 2012

Welcome to Balance 529

This blog is dedicated to the art of balanced sculptures.  More specifically, mobiles.




This mobile has been sold and is hanging in a home in Iowa.

We call this mobile The Red Chair.  It started with the 3 white vintage handmade chairs.  They arrived with something else I purchased in an auction on-line.  They had a wonderful feel to them.  I knew as soon as I touched them they were destined for an art piece of some kind.  I did not know what though.  After they spent some time on the shelf in the studio, I started seeing them with worn paint.  They were painted a very solid cream white.  I got out my sanding blocks and went to work.  I did not sand them all the same.  They were all 'worn' differently.
Then I found the red chair, which was not red, but orange.  It was then that it all clicked.  I saw the chairs, floating in the air.  I saw the orange chair as a red chair- and painted it red.  I combed through one of my 'make it' boxes and found some other tiny chairs.
Chance hung these in such a way that the chairs do indeed float.  The mobile moves easily and is continuously a joy to observe. 

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