Investigating Balance

Sculpture as Experience

 By Judith Peck
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WV0gJKlWGEoC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=balance+within+sculpture&source=bl&ots=0RSS2tgnOk&sig=Ika6KeBTuvn2OBH6lcRroQ-iYjs&hl=en&ei=7L6mTZS-JamShAfL18TSCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&sqi=2&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=balance%20within%20sculpture&f=false

(From Ursi's blog - fine things for your delight) 

Chris Booth's sculptures are a manifestation and acknowledgement of those links. In their melding of the processes of the natural world and the processes of mathematics and engineering, the sculptures embody a notion of balance rather than power, co-existence rather than domination.

Chris Booth is one of New Zealands leading sculptors, now frequently working around the World: Chris Booth Sculpture

http://www.ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/weblog.php?/C25/P15/

 (nothing to do with balance)I like the playful publicity of this - also its curved which always appeals to me ....connotes people being in their own bubble when walking around in public. Almost sculpture and performance art as both can be appreciated.

(nothing to do with balance) I love the brutal honesty - makes you think of our growing numbers of obese people in western society).

 Balance from an object from a human balancing pose - must have a very strong base to counter the one sided majority of weight.

Rock Stacking

http://www.teamsandtastic.com/RockStacking/

Reminds me of being a kid and balancing stones on top of each other on the beach, but this is to the extreme! I would like to combine my art with being outside more and traveling if possible as these are my main interests so to combine them would be helpful.


Natural Rock balancing

 People and objects balancing

HEheHEhe I'm amazed that a tractor can still go and not be taken off the road (this is why i like traveling .. to see different cultures ways of doing things and how incidents like this are normal and every day simple solutions) ... hahahhaa also just realised that that lady must be as heavy as a tractor wheel .... if I'm ever skint or without wheel ill find a human counter balance.

 Going into the mental balance theme here but i just thought id save it as it evoked a fuming rage in me that humans can be so apposing and disrespectful... so i thought id keep it.

First of all he is balancing on tow chairs which is pretty impressive in its self... but also he is on a table balanced on a chimney of a very high building ... :O - extreme balancing