The Expanding Universe

These pieces, unlike several of the aspects of Anolatabulata and Con(jug)ates, of little interest to the mathematicians, for me were majical and mysterious. Accordingly for the next several years I made numerous variations attempting to understand the way in which the tornado-like funnels whirled inwards in one direction, until reaching a moment of equilibrium that set them whirling outward the other way.

1: "Jacob's Ladder" 1979 c. 17x4'x3'.

2: "Plainsong - Proportion" 1977. 9' x various at the Columbus Museum of Art.