Rubber Tubing image courtesy of NewAge Industries, Inc.

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor from the mid 1900s who is known for both very large and very small pieces of work. The one I have in mind at the moment is of the latter category, named, appropriately enough, Calder’s Circus. It is, as the title implies, a miniature display of more than seventy small mobile and interactive figures and animals, in addition to almost 100 supplementary accompanying “bells and whistles”, such as Continue reading →