Forces of Nature: Hurricanes and Slinkys, 2007-2010

Forces of Nature: Hurricanes and Slinkys, 2007-2010
Installed at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky
Steel, irrigation tubing, cable ties, paint, and artificial grass

This three-year outdoor installation of Forces of Nature: Hurricanes and Slinkys, was designed for in the Live, Learn, Believe outdoor exhibition, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky.  Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the “wonderful toy” the slinky, the inexpensive Slinky seems so simple, but the physics of the spring and theories of Hooke’s law visualize the limits of stress that can be endured before it cannot be corrected when the stress is removed. This outdoor sculpture combines these two visuals with a peaceful, but artificial, grassy eye of the storm.