Showing posts with label Balance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balance. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2026

BALANCE

 

The name of the sculpture seems appropriate, but it may have to have more to do with structural engineering and metallurgy than a delicate balance of forces. As I edited this picture I thought of the exquisite and often unexpected equilibrium of forces in Alexander Calder's sculpture. This work, it seems to me, stresses the technical over the natural.