Amazing kinetic sculptures by Anthony Howe via This is Colossal:
[…]powered by wind or motors that cycle continuously through hypnotic motions that resemble something between the tentacles of an octopus and an alien spacecraft. Weighing up to 1,600 lbs (725kg), each artwork is first built digitally to test how it will move and react to the force of wind once fabricated in the real world.
According to the artist,
“Kinetic sculpture resides at the intersection of artistic inspiration and mechanical complexity. The making of one of my pieces relies on creative expression, metal fabrication, and a slow design process in equal parts. It aims to alter one’s experience of time and space when witnessed. It also needs to weather winds of 90 mph and still move in a one mile per hour breeze and do so for hundreds of years.”
His work is not available for commission. Born in Salt Lake City, Anthony Howe attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and subsequently moved on to Cornell University and the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. At the beginning, he built a house in New Hampshire, painting watercolours, which led to a series of one man shows in Boston. However, he moved on to metal after being inspired by his part time job erecting shelving, and combined it with a previous interest in wind power. His kinetic sculptures have been exhibited in the Middle East and in America.