_Kinetic Sculpture
”I enjoy bringing the human form to life and imposing characteristics that are recognisable as intrinsically human. The juxtaposition of having a mechanical figure show, perhaps, a human weakness creates an opportunity to hold a mirror up to our own species and play with it’s eccentricities. Working with little or no budget, I have learned how to be very economical with movement. Every movement I give a sculpture is an added expense and so I have become obsessed with how to say the most by using the least movement as possible. In this way I focus on small gesture finding that it often reveals more of the emotional drama I wish played out in a piece than anything else.
Where as the million dollar Japanese robots promise a better future as they triumph the advances in technology, my machines live in a world where society is moving so fast that it discards technology almost as quickly as it invents it. My machines are not positive icons of a future to come. They will not improve our lives by being a more efficient workforce, freeing up more leisure time for the working man...no, these sculptures are lost ‘souls’ , redundant, the technological remnants society has discarded on its accelerating trajectory.
- GILES WALKER 2012
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I enjoy bringing the human form to life and imposing characteristics that are recognisable as intrinsically human. The juxtaposition of having a mechanical figure show, perhaps, a human weakness creates an opportunity to hold a mirror up to our own species and play with it’s eccentricities. Working with little or no budget, I have learned how to be very economical with movement. Every movement I give a sculpture is an added expense and so I have become obsessed with how to say the most by using the least movement as possible. In this way I focus on small gesture finding that it often reveals more of the emotional drama I wish played out in a piece than anything else.
Where as the million dollar Japanese robots promise a better future as they triumph the advances in technology, my machines live in a world where society is moving so fast that it discards technology almost as quickly as it invents it. My machines are not positive icons of a future to come. They will not improve our lives by being a more efficient workforce, freeing up more leisure time for the working man...no, these sculptures are lost ‘souls’ , redundant, the technological remnants society has discarded on its accelerating trajectory.
- GILES WALKER 2012