Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Signal by Ralph Helmick



Steel tubes have never looked this good. I present Signal by American artist Ralph Helmick. Signal was commisioned by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. It is situated in front of the Biomedical Engineering Building at Rudger University, NJ. The artwork was fabricated out of Hot Dip Galvanized tubing, which was epoxy coated.

Signal is a collision of stasis and movement
Signal is distinctively non-kinetic
Signal relies on perspective and expectation
Signal is mostly air
Signal's non-air parts aggressively catch light and harvest shadow

The work's title derives from the engineering term "signal-to-noise" ratio.






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