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System Idle
6” x 8” x 2”
On display and available for purchase at Jackson Memorial Library, Tenants Harbor, ME
In System Idle, function is frozen. Brass valves and silent gears compose a quiet meditation on motion, memory, and machinery in repose.
6” x 8” x 2”
On display and available for purchase at Jackson Memorial Library, Tenants Harbor, ME
In System Idle, function is frozen. Brass valves and silent gears compose a quiet meditation on motion, memory, and machinery in repose.
Materials List
Brass trumpet or cornet valves
Assorted brass and steel gears
Coiled wire and mechanical fittings
Wrapped cord
Bent copper tubing
Preserved foliage (seed pods)
Collaged vintage newsprint
System Idle evokes the dormant potential of a machine once in motion. Brass valves stand still, gears disengaged, and a looped copper pipe, wrapped in cord, now circles without current. Carefully composed mechanical remnants suggest a paused mechanism—waiting, perhaps, for its purpose to resume. Surrounded by layers of yellowed and sepia-toned newsprint, the scene feels like a diagram preserved in a forgotten manual—an engine of action, now silenced.