This piece is a kinetic sculpture consisting in a disc where a drop of colored water falls from the ceiling at regular intervals. An animation of a clockwork mechanism, revolving around the color stains, is projected onto the disc. It was part of the first exhibition of the incoming graduate students in the Design Media Arts department. Shown at the New Wight Gallery, UCLA, January of 2008.
With these two elements, the water drops and the clockwork mechanism, I tried to address two seemingly confronted forces: the irrational (the biological, the fluid, the bodily…) and the rational (the machine, the measurable, the scientifically apprehensible…). The mechanism attempts to analyze the accumulating fluid, revolves around it, projects its needles towards the cell-like, liquid stain which grows as the water keeps falling.