Falling or Swinging?

Main project aesthetic will follow my own, eclectic minimalism, as discussed in the last post. the project itself will be a pendulum contained in a metal support system. Ideally the end of the pendulum will be glass rondle to change ans cast light as it oscillates back and forth. The unpredictable and changes lines cast through the rondle bring in a subtle unpredictability and embodies the eclectic side of my chosen aesthetic. They stand and pendulum will be blackened steel. A clean, well defined boundary design to be in stark contrast to any window or wall its placed in front of. either bearing or some sort of pin system will enable the movement of the pendulum. I’m thinking the name will be Meditations in Time.

For the first of a wildly different aesthetic consideration is cyber punk. The rondle would be interchanged to be some kind of light up disk, either neon acrylic to naturally capture and magnify light or an internally lit of piece of acrylic. The frame would be some modern, sleek, shinny metal; stainless steal or similar. the action of the swing might be compounded such as the desk toy on Pepper’s desk in Iron Man 2. Or involve a greater technological aspect like magnetic levitation, admittedly getting a swing from this modification would be changeling and might benefit from shifting to a rotation of some kind.

Side note: The sculpture above is crystals of Bismuth suspending a magnet between the two pieces. Its a beautiful use of science to visual effect. The wood would need exchanged for metal to successfully achieve a cyberpunk aesthetic.

 

A personally more alluring alternative aesthetic for consideration would be Rococo–Baroque would more better fit a vastly different aesthetic; however, is heavy ornamentation doesn’t seem to lend itself to movement and the causal swinging of the pendulum would need to be carefully considered and integrated lest its movements be lost in the gilded chaos. The rococo stand almost demands to be gold, adorned in vines. leaf and floral ornamentation would flow over most all of the piece, fulfilling the light natural inspiration of the aesthetic. The overall shape would undulate and flow more freely and either previous consideration. Similarities to a clock cannot be ignored in period considerations. pendulums don’t seem to have been prevalent in the aesthetics initial time, favoring carriage or mantel clocks instead, but a pastel and white ceramic disk at the end of a gold branch or vine line appendage seems fitting.

 

Sources:

[Featured Image]: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488051

[1] https://theodoreellison.com/collection/rondel/

[2] https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/206981

[3] https://soundcloud.com/t3nob/pendulum-allie-x-flip

[4] https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/maglev-bismuth-crystal-kinetic-1552241147