Change Machine, Cyclical Model 25x

Title: Change Machine, Cyclical Model 25x
Year: 2002
Dimensions: 34” high

References events with wide-ranging ripple effects, as the invention of the steam engine set off England’s Industrial Revolution. Based on my year at an English boarding school in 1977; also the Queen’s Silver Jubilee (25th year of her reign). I built the piece in 2002, 25 years after that influential year.

 

Front with copper, rivets, steam engine, red leather, green velvet

Front with copper, rivets, steam engine, red leather, green velvet

Back, with weathered copper and Modular Man’s Sisyphus track

Back, with weathered copper and Modular Man’s Sisyphus track

Victorians even add beautiful tiles to a hard-working steam engine

Victorians even add beautiful tiles to a hard-working steam engine

1977 journal pages burned for heat like papyrus scrolls

1977 journal pages burned for heat like papyrus scrolls

Medieval wax seal guards photographic Angelic chamber

Medieval wax seal guards photographic Angelic chamber

Floating escape pod with riveted protective band

Floating escape pod with riveted protective band