This was an introductory sculpture assignment: we had to take a piece of furniture or common household item, deconstruct it, and then reconstruct it as an integrated art piece. I chose to use an old vacuum cleaner.
The vacuum was suspended on a thirty-foot-long cord over a circular “lazy-susan-like” platform that was covered with salt. The vacuum would swing over the rotating platform, and air forced out of a small hole in the bottom of the vacuum would trace patterns in the salt. Different swings and rotation combinations would create vastly different patterns.
Is it art, design, or just physics?
