hyperbola

Clear plastic umbrellas, paper clips, trace wire, motors, aluminium, Abacus beads, timber.

Hyperbola (2019) is a kinetic installation featuring twin dome-shaped umbrellas where their finely engineered structures are visible through clear plastic. Mounted in space, high on poles, the umbrellas face each other and their structures are extended and linked to each other. Black trace wire draws a mathematical hyperbole form, and as the umbrellas are set in motion, rotating together, small items like abacus beads and paperclips travel the wires between them.