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The Game of Flyers, 1980

Wood, steel, fire, water, birds, buckets, carousel, column, ladders, platform, pulleys, tower, trenches, wheels

40’ x 25’ x 100’

Sited for Washington Public Arts, Washington D.C., Twelfth and G Streets, Washington D.C., temporary installation

Photo: Alice Aycock

Ghosts, from the Series Entitled “How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts,” 1980

Wood, belts, cables, clamps, pulleys, steel

Approximately 16’ x 15’ x 11’

Collection of the Orange County Museum of Art, California

Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio; Noah Kelber (details)

Collected Ghost Stories from the Workhouse, 1980

From the Series Entitled How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts

Cable, copper, galvanized steel, glass piping, steel, wire and wood

30’ x 75’ x 120’ (variable)

Sited at University of Florida, Tampa, FL

Photo: Alice Aycock

The Miraculating Machine in the Garden (Tower of the Winds), 1982

Glass, concrete, steel, sheet metal, copper, neon light and vegetation

Approximately 30’ x 30’ x 20’; A 16’ high structure with sounding devices; 26’ antennae, bells ringing in a vacuum and cyclotron pipe system for sending vibrations

Permanently sited at Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Photo: Mike Van Tassell / mikevantassell.com (Color); Wenda Habenicht (B+W)

Hoodo (Laura), 1981

Hoodo (Laura), From the Series Entitled How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts: Vertical and Horizontal Cross-Sections of the Ether Wind, 1981

Plexiglas, glass, steel, galvanized steel, moving parts, neon light

Approximately 30’ l x 34’ w x 10’ h

Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Savage Sparkler, 1981

Structural steel, anodized aluminum, fans, fluorescent lighting, motors, galvanized sheet metal, copper tubing, rack of hot coils

Approximately 10’ high x 10’ diameter x 20’ long

Photo: Jon Abbott

The Leonardo Swirl, 1982

Galvanized sheet metal

5’ diameter x 3’ high

Private collection

Photo: Fred Scruton

The Solar Wind, 1983

The Solar Wind, From the Series Entitled, “A Theory of Universal Causality (Time/Creation Machines), 1983

Painted steel, aluminum, galvanized sheet metal, Plexiglas, cable, blue neon light

40’ h x 40’ w x 31’ d

Roanoke College, Salem, VA

Nets of Solomon, Phase II, 1983

Structure 1- The Nets of Solomon; Structure 2- The Celestial Alphabet; Structure 3- The Game Assembly; Structure 4- The Spinning Top

Steel, glass, electrical lights

Approximately 13’ wide x 75’ long

Room size installation, constructed for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Photo: Tom Van Ende, Fred Scruton

The Thousand and One Nights in the Mansion of Bliss, 1983

Structural steel, aluminum, galvanized sheet metal, Plexiglas, motorized parts, blinking lights, steel mesh

Variable dimensions: Approximately 30’ h x 22’ w x 80’ l

Installed at Protetch McNeil Gallery, New York, NY, 1983

Photo: Wolfgang Staehle, Alice Aycock

Silent Speakers: Every Day I’m Born, Every Night I Die, 1984

Steel, brass, zinc, Plexiglas, cable, charcoal, motorized parts

87” high x 60” long x 130” wide

Photo: Fred Scruton

Of Things Seen in the Sky: Fata Morgana, 1984

Steel, spinning glass disk, red neon light, suspended mirror and glass, spinning crescent-shaped steel blades, cable

88” h x 53” w x 60” l

Photo: Pierre Le Hors, Courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York and London (2020)

Pig of Knowledge, 1984

A Salutation to the Wonderful Pig of Knowledge (Oh! Great Jellyfish, Great Waterspouter... There’s a Hole in the Bucket, and There’s a Hole in my Head...), 1984

Steel, copper, brass, aluminum, formica, wood, Plexiglas, LEDs, motorized parts

6.75’ x 9.25’ x 11.5’

Photo: Herling/Herling/Werner, Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2019; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, 2009

The Hundred Small Rooms, 1984

Wood painted white

28’ h x 12’4” w x 12’4” d

Photo: Rick Gardner, Robert Pettus

The House of the Stoics (Structure A), 1984

Wood painted white

Approximately 32’ h x 13’6” w x 11’9” d

Originally sited at Lake Biwa, Japan

Three-fold Manifestation II, 1987

Three elliptical steel bowl forms each containing a skewed step formation supported by three vertical steel poles, steel painted white

32’ h x 12’ w x 14’ d

Photo: Jerry L. Thompson

Permanent collection of Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY.

Designed for and temporarily sited at Doris Freedman Plaza, 60th St. and 5th Ave., Central Park, New York City, May, 1987.

The Descent and Reascent of the Soul II, 1988

Brass, wood, aluminum, mirror, Plexiglas

11’ h x 4’8” d x 7’ w

Photo: Mark America

The Game of Flyers, 1980

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Ghosts, from the Series Entitled “How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts,” 1980

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Collected Ghost Stories from the Workhouse, 1980

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The Miraculating Machine in the Garden (Tower of the Winds), 1982

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Hoodo (Laura), 1981

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The Savage Sparkler, 1981

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The Leonardo Swirl, 1982

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The Solar Wind, 1983

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Nets of Solomon, Phase II, 1983

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The Thousand and One Nights in the Mansion of Bliss, 1983

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Silent Speakers: Every Day I’m Born, Every Night I Die, 1984

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Of Things Seen in the Sky: Fata Morgana, 1984

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Pig of Knowledge, 1984

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The Hundred Small Rooms, 1984

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The House of the Stoics (Structure A), 1984

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Three-fold Manifestation II, 1987

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The Descent and Reascent of the Soul II, 1988

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