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Thomas VanHouten
The Buoyancy Project Canessa Gallery, 2016
A Study in Buoyancy and Respiration, 2016
The Buoyancy Project was a site inspired art exhibit at Canessa Gallery in North Beach San Francisco. It begins with a photographic sequenced motion study in the style of Eadweard Muybridge. The goal was to record and reproduce the movement of a floating body through one cycle of respiration. Measurements were take from the motion study and transferred to the camshaft of the machine. When the viewer pressesd a button the motor would drive the machine through a cycle of ascending and descending at the same rate as in the study.
Mechanism of Accention, 2016
The Empathy Coat , 2015
copper screen, copper wire, brass grommets, springs, and pico nails
Self Internment , 2014
Solid oak chair has built in foot activated ratcheting hand cuffs.
Experiential Topography , 2013
nails, wood, shellac
Boxing the Compass ,2013
Sarcophagus Scale ,2013
Manifold, 2010 cast bronze
the Flower Trap, 2011
cast urethane, steel, brass, glass, cast ceramic, cable, hardware, and fish hooks
Water Zodiac Globe, 2010
True Grit, 2013 assemblage
post card for Scope 2013 Miami
What holds the world up, 2010
"For those of us inclined to poetic association the world is an allegorical cat slide. We plummet in slow motion on a desperate journey from innocence to decrepitude. A bumpy, dusty carriage ride with fear at the reigns and denial riding shotgun. We each must work diligently to crochet a parachute from the threads of chaos. For man the pattern maker finds just as much comfort in superstition as in science. "
Thomas Van Houten
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