SIGNAL

Program
Education | Science & Technology
Media
steel, epoxy resin paint
Year
2009
Location
Biomedical Engineering Building, Rutgers University, NJ

Gallery

Signal

 

Every branch of research at Rutgers University’s Biomedical Engineering Building relates in some way to the human body. Signal simultaneously embodies the human form and serves as a metaphor for scientific inquiry.

The core sculptural image is a running figure inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th c. motion studies.

Comprised of stacked steel pipes, this form reveals itself dynamically depending on the viewer’s location. Stasis and motion; realism and abstraction.

In this manner it also echoes issues of perception, focus and relativity inherent in scientific research.

Signal was fabricated by Bob’s Welding and Fabrication, Central Falls, RI.