Sculpture / instruments / installation
Hands, instruments
and a hallway
in motion.
Explore the complete Pillars of Creation studies: a library of one hundred pipe hands, three four-armed figures, and an installation of moving tools.
The study archive
One project. Three scales.
From a single gesture to a figure, and from a figure to a space.
The hand library
One hundred holding gestures and instruments reinterpret symbolic attributes through the language of DIY biology. Search by object, family or idea.
Explore 100 studies ↗
Shiva, Vishnu & Brahma
Three complete sculptures assemble four arms, four hands and four tools into each figure. Inspect them individually or together.
Explore the figures ↗
The moving hallway
Fifty hands on each wall form a long procession. Every wrist articulates; 119 additional tool motions turn, rock, slide, scan and pulse.
Walk through the installation ↗A closer look
Tools that turn.
Hands that gesture.
A short film of the animated installation and individual mechanisms, rendered from the actual 3D models.
See all films and images →Gold pipe. White joints. Exposed instruments.
3-inch main pipe / 76.2 mm outside diameterThe visual record
Images & film
Studio views, installation perspectives, diagrams and movement studies.
From study to model
The model archive
Download individual studies, complete figures, the installation and its animated hands.
