CYCLEBREAKER

2024 

Power Supply, Speed Controller, Motor, 3D Printed PLA filament, Waxed Cardboard Tube, Plywood, Aluminum, Iron, Steel, Copper Pine, Cotton, Acrylic Paint

Édouard Glissant describes a circuit as a “line of energy curved back upon itself”. In a cybernetic feedback loop, the space between an end and a beginning is the break. Fred Moten tells us that “in the break” is where improvisation happens. 

In electronics, a breaker is the mechanism that intervenes in harmful feedback loops to reset the system. Combining kinetic sculpture with painting and textile to create moving image, “CYCLEBREAKER” is a contemplation of the cyclical patterns in our lives.