The BioDynamic Lunar Clock: an Installation
-A BioDynamic Lunar Clock: the first of its kind.
-It is fully functional as a timepiece: the Great Ring rotates once every 28 days, each Data Plate represents a single day.
-This is a clock that references the BioDynamic Almanac. This almanac documents how the Moon affects vegetation. Primarily, how the Moons gravitational pull (determined by whether the Moon is high or low in the sky, and at Apogee or Perigee) affects water: realize that the Moons gravity is not limited to just the oceans (the tides), but also pulls upon the latent water in the earths soil.
-In addition, the phase of the Moon affects the amount of light reflected at night, directly influencing the dark phase of photosynthesis.
-All of these elements are distilled down to inform how one farms their crops for a specific day: thus the labels of the four elements of the plant, the Root, Leaf, Flower, and Fruit.
-The Great Ring has to be stripped down and reset at the beginning of each New Moon. The relevant information is pulled out of the Biodynamic Almanac, which is published annually.
-All the brass labels are affixed with magnets as well as a mechanical interlock that eliminates shear forces. I fabricated roughly an additional 80 constellation and name plates, to cover all the variations possibly required to monthly repopulate the Great Ring.
-Entirely shop made, except for the screws and the glass. I spent approximately a month just designing the piece.
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-Josh W. Kinsey is a meticulous artisan who weaves together the intrinsic nature of manic beavers with the distilled hopes and dreams of orphaned kittens, twisting their variegated manifestations upon his engine lathe. Delicate metallic fantasies that taste sweet upon the tongue are bored and reamed upon his drill press, incised with traceries of angst with razored chisels and planes. Arcane symbols and geometries that are a delight to the nose are illustrated with his compass and pantograph. Meticulously detailed imaginings that flagellate the soul are drawn with pencil and marker, imbued with the subtle aromas of depression and rage.
-Repurposed elements are expressly forbidden in Kinsey’s spiffy mechanical concoctions, as is hot glue, upcycling, the word “Steampunk”, shoddy craftsmanship, negative musings, and broccoli. Rather, Kinsey combines ornately whittled exotic woods with foundry cast mechanical elements smooshed into delightful expressions of splendiferous sparkliness.
-J.W. Kinsey’s pieces are wondrous fabrications celebrating the joys of craftsmanship from bygone ruminations. Spelunking the bottomless depths of the colloquial “What is it?” and the always nefarious “What’s the F’n point?”, Kinsey’s work captures the viewer’s attention, briefly.
-J.W. resides with his wife Katelyn in Silverton, OR.
-Most importantly, he can ride a unicycle.
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