PORTFOLIO > Coriolis

Boulder dropped from forty-feet onto a piano fabricated of rusted mild steel

2011
Steel, boulder, hardware, 40' free-fall
74 x 31 x 62 inches

Coriolis effect:

effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force) acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation. On the earth, the effect tends to deflect moving objects to the east in the northern hemisphere and to the west in the southern.

Coriolis 
(installed in Vertigo at Gallery Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain)
Steel, boulder, hardware, 40' free-fall
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2012
Coriolis
(installed in Vertigo at Gallery Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain)
Steel, boulder, hardware, 40' free-fall
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2011
Coriolis 
(installed in Vertigo at Gallery Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain)
Steel, boulder, hardware, 40' free-fall
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2012
Coriolis
(piano in progress)
Steel
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2011
Coriolis
(piano in progress)
Steel
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2011
Coriolis
(piano in progress)
Steel, hardware
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2011
Coriolis
(preparing the drop)
Steel, boulder, hardware, 40' free-fall
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2011
Coriolis
(installed in Vertigo at Gallery Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain)
Steel, boulder, hardware, 40' free-fall
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2011
Coriolis
Steel, boulder, hardware, 40' free-fall
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2011
Coriolis
(piano in progress)
Steel, hardware
74 x 31 x 62 inches
2012