Rolling Spheres, 2021 Jonathan Sachs
IMAGES COMING SOON
Materials: Aluminum, plastic, stainless steel paint
Dimensions:W-67” H-66” DEPTH 28”
The Rolling Spheres sculpture allows visitors to create a wide range of looks merely by safely rotating the painted plastic spheres.
The work requires no electricity, no instructions; people walk up and immediately understand that they can and should change it.I have seen people of all ages spend time with the work and it changes nearly every time I go to see it.
Birds on a Wire, 2022 Jonathan Sachs
IMAGES COMING SOON
Materials: Aluminum, plastic, stainless steel paint
Dimensions:W-72.5” H-65” DEPTH 28”
The Birds on a Wire sculpture allows visitors to rearrange the bird by rotating them and sliding them back and forth. Each bird is painted in strong colors on one side and in shades of gray on the other.
People can “tell stories” by setting the birds so many are colored and just a few are gray, or vice-versa. Other people ”tell stories” with the birds by having many faces one way and one, or just a few, face the other way, which tells a tale of isolation or confrontation.
The birds are changed nearly every day in the outdoor location where they are sited.
Adjustable, 2023 Jonathan Sachs
IMAGES COMING SOON
Materials: Aluminum, plastic, stainless steel paint
Dimensions:W-72.5” H-65” DEPTH 28”
AdjustAble is the newest and most complex work. It can be arranged in nearly infinite ways.
Visitors can slide four-side boxes up and down and also rotate them, so that the work can quickly change from yellows to blacks and endless mixes.
Like the other works, it needs no instructions: people can simply walk up and change it around. A hidden braking mechanism gives the boxes enough tension so that they stay where they are placed.
A side project is to have visitors arrange the work and then send in their photos to be shown on the website. This is a truly participatory work.
About the Artist
Jonathan Sachs is a photographer, videographer, and graphic designer for over 50 years. In 2017 he founded a sculpture park in my town, www.burlingtonsculpturepark.org. He then decided that interactive works were needed to spur more repeat visits. Since then he has created a series of successful interactive sculptures. The challenge with interactive works is to make them safe for the human visitors and safe from damage by the visitors. The solution is to carefully allow limited movement, but to create engaging works despite the limitations. So far, all the works have succeeded.
Website https://www.sculpture.fun/
