Troy Pillow "Circus Peanuts" Kinetic Sculpture

From the exhibition Sculpture in Motion at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on view through October 2008 and curated by Brigitte Micmacker from Sculpturesite Gallery. Curator's commentary: "Troy Pillow has found a strong influence in Calder, in both his mobiles and stabiles. But it is Pillow's ability to bring the environment into his contemplative work through the ingenuous use of stainless steel polished to a mirror finish, reflecting both the painted parts of his sculpture and its surroundings as it gently shimmers, that is truly exciting. It communicates an enchanting blurring of boundaries between sculpture, viewer and setting. In Circus Peanuts, the reflective surfaces are small rectangular paddles that rotate around a common vertical axis set off-center to the bright orange stabile element; they become in turn windows or mirrors."

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