Brooklyn Sculptor Explores Movement in Nature: Viewer Participation encouraged…
“You can touch it…”
“Really?”
The little girl hesitatingly reached up and pulled down on a steel rod at the base of small steel dragonfly mounted on the wall. Suddenly the insect’s delicate, sculptured wings opened and separated – as if it were about to fly.
“Wow,” she whispered.
Then, her friend tried, moving the crank more rapidly, creating a somewhat more agitated dragonfly.
The girls were enchanted. Though the experience of cranking open the eyes of mysterious face mounted at eye-level next to the dragonfly they had to admit had been, well, “pretty scary.”