Rhythm is an important element of motion.
Respiration, heartbeat, walking. The sense of rhythm is innate for our body movements. One type of motion may appear very differently according to its rhythm: regular or irregular, fast or slow.
| Object movements
| Kinesthetic representation
Pendulum
The pendulum made me empathise with the moving sphere and feel like I am on a swing. The rhythm also reminds me of the pace of walking toward a destination with a certain purpose.
Elliptic Sculpture
The rhythm of rolling, the angle of balancing, the elliptic shape of the sculpture, the hard materiality which not only the visual but also the sound tells us. With what kind of kinesthetic feeling would you empathise with the motion?
My kinesthetic empathy with the elliptic sculpture can be better expressed with a rocking chair. I can simulate how it would feel like if I were to move like the sculpture, but my body is not enough to actually demonstrate the feeling of rolling on the round and hard edge. Sitting on a rocking chair, it feels like an extension of my body, not just an external object.
Bending Sculpture
It consists of a foam sphere, a carbon fibre, a wooden pillar and base.
The sense of balance and imbalance repeats and gradually attenuates. It is anthropomorphic; the sphere looks like a head on top of a body of the fibre. The sculpture overall may look like a human bowing. The sense of tilting the upper body could be simulated.