Technorama Facade

In thinking about my final sculptural movement assignment, the piece is supposed to help enhance a movement or hinder a movement. Since my movement is "learning how to dolphin kick" and the first step to that is understanding undulating movement, I am fascinating by this video of Ned Kahn's sculpture which captures undulating movement of air currents and translates them into something the eye can see.

Everything I have read about the dolphin kick says that you must first envision this undulating movement in your mind. This tells me my sculptural piece must be conceptual in nature. To truly help, it must convey this idea of undulation before even moving into the physical logistics of muscle movement.

In thinking about the practicality of ordinary, everyday objects like chairs, I thought about H.R. Giger and how he looked at and reinvented ordinary objects based on how an alien might use an an object such as a chair in his initial designs for the Alien motion picture series.

I like this quote from his work "Biomechanics" (1993) "Flesh and bone join magma and steel  in synergistic ballet. Metal girders support and conduits nourish. Human forms grow fluid and metamorphic, evolving into a new realm, both disturbing and sublime." H.R. Giger

I find it interesting that more and more humans are becoming "augmented" and or "improved" as our technological abilities improve. Soon, I believe the bridge will become even more seamless just as Giger has envisioned it. Reality following art or is art manifesting reality?