One of the ThreeFor this Holy Week exhibition at Sacred Trinity (which was featured on www.salfordonline.com), I have produced a piece of kinetic art. The following explanation accompanied the piece: Hanging by a ThreadThis piece is my experiment with kinetic art - art that moves. Inspired by Alexander Calder, who invented mobiles in the 1930s, this mobile encompasses a number of symbolic and suggestive elements. On a basic level, it's just a mobile using basic materials, simply constructed to achieve movement, visually appealing in its gentle ebb and flow. On another, its components symbolise the craft that Jesus was brought up in - carpentry - with wood as the main resource, nails and string being elements used to construct and ribbons representing the craft of decorating the end product. On yet another, it's an homage to Mondrian, with the components mapping to his horizontal and vertical lines and occassional blocks of colour lifted out of the background. Given the exhibition theme, however, yet another source of inspiration is the Eastern Orthodox Cross. The top beam being lifted slightly higher, acting as the nameplate declaring Christ the King of the Jews; the central beams, the cross itself; the lower beam, the footplate He may have had, whilst also acting as a symbol of the state of balance and equilibrium being sought by us all in our lives, illustrated by the thieves crucified with Christ. One, in White, aims to repent and ascend to paradise; the other, in Black, aims to defy and descend to hell (if he even believes in hell); Christ, in Red, provides the point of equilibrium between the two, the catalyst for the issue. On the mobile, the two thieves dance around Christ, each moving up and down as they decide how to react, what to do, where to invest their eternity. This interpretation needn't be quite so literal...it's a battle of love and hate, good and bad, positive and negative, help and hinderance...the essence of issues of balance within our lives, which are merely hanging by a thread.
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