Michael Gard’s ethereal kinetic sculptures begin as a block of clay and a spool of wire. Gard sculpts the clay and reproduces the body in wax. Individual lengths of wire are woven and knotted stitch-by-stitch around the wax form. At long last, the wax is melted away, leaving a rigid figure that is both light and strong. Originally sculpted in pure metallic finishes, these figures incorporate glimmering LED lights and even brightly colored enameled wires.
