CONTINUUM
CONTINUUM, 2010
87” x 36” x 36”
Steel, bearings, paper, pink pearl erasure, pencil
"Continuum,'' a wind-powered drawing machine which draws a circle and erases the circle. The piece began with the desire to use wind to shape a work. This concept has since taken seed in other works including, Drawing Machine. Working as a windmill, Continuum turns a mechanism that drives a No. 2 pencil, followed by a Pink Pearl eraser, spinning around a sheet of paper that's changed every 24 hours. The eraser smudges and blurs the line, which varies in tone and intensity based on the force of the wind. A total of three months of drawings were created, each subtly different, each a daily record. Essentially a record of time captured and presented in 24hour periods. "Continuum'' is about life, creating and destroying it at the same time.