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Ryan Wolfe's sculpture for Outside In, Field,
Biaxial, encapsulates the experience of watching the
rise and fall of an ocean breeze blowing across a field
of wild grass. In both form and motion, it presents an essential,
abstracted interpretation of this natural and dynamic physical
experience. It is one in a series of machine-based sketches
that explore this landscape.
Field, Biaxial is comprised of a large network of
mechatronic grass blades. Each blade is a small, independent
element within the much-larger aggregate sculptural form.
This replication of form gives the piece a unique fractal
quality, as any one of the individual blades of grass encompasses
all of the behaviors that also constitute the kinetic vocabulary
of the entire sculpture. Unlike an actual physical place
(but not unlike ourselves), Field, Biaxial experiences the
world internally, and expresses its response to that internal
dialog as externalized physical expressions. Within the
relative ambient stillness of the gallery, an internal breeze
of information constantly blows across the sculptural network.
This information is individually interpreted by each node,
and then physically manifested through movement. It is the
sum of the many internal digital "conversations"
constantly occurring between the many blades that coalesces
into a beautiful device-based interpretation of this unique
landscape.
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