This was my first rolling ball sculpture, which took me almost a year to complete. I incorporated chunks of glass obtained from the Tropicana factory. Remember the green Pepsi bottles? This is runoff glass used to make them. What took so long was that every piece was bent with a torch. The three large bars, which make up the frame, were 9' long when I started. One of them has 18 wires running thru it to support 9 lights distributed throughout the sculpture. Definitely one of a kind.
Rolling ball sculpture number two. In order to build it faster, I decided to use several pieces of small straight pipes instead of bending the entire frame like Krypton. Since I didn't have any single bars to the top, it was extremely unstable when I put the lampshade on. Therefore, I added three stainless steal rods rapped around several of the pipes from top to bottom. This provided stability and also added to the design. First prize at the annual ArtCenter Manatee competition.
Rolling ball sculpture number three. This one was built over the course of two years. I started, stoped, it rusted, started again, etc. Eventually I pushed forward and got it done. There are three tracks with a spiral elevator in the middle. The motor is only 3 Hp so it takes 20 minutes for a single marble to get to the top. Sophia said I it needed some butterflies and there you have it.
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