Video: Fun Beach Insect Walking
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds,” says Dutch artist Theo Jansen. Breaking the line between art and engineering, Theo Jansen creates huge wonder monsters. It is difficult, however, to figure out who they really are, or animals, or insects. But they invaded Dutch beaches many years ago and became their full-fledged inhabitants.
A new, hitherto unknown species of creatures appeared for the first time in 1990. New miracle monsters were born from the fantasy of the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen, who, using his technical knowledge and imagination, gave birth to majestic kinetic sculptural installations. Theo Jansen called his creations, which look like skeletons of animals, “Animari”. Creatures, set in motion by only one breath of wind, walk in herds along the beaches, frightening true beach lovers. Some creations even know how to catch the wind and store its energy, using it for further movement. Other sculptures, which are also no more stupid than the previous ones, can reliably anchor their powerful body by digging into the sand when a strong gust of wind threatens to simply blow them into the water.
Plastic tubing, costing about 10 cents per meter, a cable cord, nylon ropes, and duct tape are all the sculptor uses to create these insect-like animals. But before starting the kinetic sculpture process itself, Theo Jansen first uses a computer program to select the most efficient design that will allow the monster's legs to quickly and deftly move their bodies around the beach. Errors have no place in this art.
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