Manifold ballast

Manifold Ballast is a small kinetic sculpture featuring a flywheel, a lever & bellcrank actuator, and a geared-down second axle which carries a small figure in a spinning orbit around the upper half of the machine. Like much of my recent work, Manifold Ballast is a playful exploration of the forces that push and tug us through our daily lives. The tiny figure is propelled by a mechanism so vast in comparison as to be almost absurd, a passenger on a journey that is both bewildering and repetitive...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• kinetic
• sculpture
• art
• benjamin
• cowden
• mechanical
• moving
• machine
• figure
• flywheel
• lever

[sushidesigns85]

so precise!! Love your work.

[disndat11]

I would love to see a video of you making one of these.I'd love to know how you make the gears with so much precision.