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The endless study, 2005 - Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2005 - Photo: Terje Östling
The endless study, 2005 - Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2005 - Photo: Terje Östling
The endless study, 2005, 2005 - Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Sketch for The endless study, 2005
Sketch for The endless study, 2005
Sketch for The endless study, 2005
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
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This work is a machine for producing geometrical drawings. Inspired by the harmonograph, an invention from the nineteenth-century, the device uses a pen attached to a system of pendulums to generate complex forms comprised of curved lines. Once the initial conditions – pen, pendulums, momentum – are established, the unfolding process completes the artwork.