Applied Kinetic Arts

The piece shown here is the recent reincarnation of a previous one: The Performer. The Performer was nearly destroyed in shipping, due to careless packing on the part of a gallery and what could only have been violent handling by UPS. This was around 2 years ago. Many months later, I started receiving emails that the piece had appeared, broken and headless on ebay! There were some bids, and the carcass was purchased. I was then contacted by the new owner about possible repairs. After some time he concluded that he could not afford the repairs and put the sculpture up on ebay again! This time it was purchased by someone else who went to the trouble to actually drive the poor broken fellow up to my open studio a few weeks ago. Moved by the distances and hardships that the sculpture had endured, and the enthusiasm and commitment of its new owner, I recently undertook the task of making the piece whole again. Due to its strange tendency to return from the great beyond I have re-named it “Boomerang”. I feel the attitude in his facial features reveals some of the mischief that no doubt lurks in whatever passes for a soul in the case of roots.