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Published: 2005-01-29 21:38:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1115; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 50
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This is a detail shot of the Bronze Time Machine which I made for Pontypool Park. This photo shows the front of the machine which has a solar clock, planet maps and symbols and the Sun disk at the top. This Piece of work is a sculpture only and doesn't work but if it did all these circular disks and clocks would rotate at different speeds measuring the movement of the solar system, the seasons and time..........well in my mind it does anyway.
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Cool stuff. Made me think of the Antikythera mechanism.
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This is wonderful, the detail and everything, I can see it working
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Thank you Sal, i'm glad you like it 
Having had a look at your web site i see that you're a scientist as well as an artist. maybe you could get my time machine to work eh then!!??...lol
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... I find sometimes that when you really get down to it ... science and art have kind of the same things going on while you do them .... kind of absorbing and arranging information ... but the final product is completely different ... science has to be expressed so that others can follow but art has no constraints ... what do you think?
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Hey Sal,
i guess i dunno enough about working with science to know if it's similar to makin' art, but i'd imagine it's as absorbing when you're engrossed in some scientific puzzle. you're right about the difference as far as the viewer goes....i guess Art is airy fairy and will inevitably be interpreted by the viewer in a multitude of different ways, whereas science has to be concrete and the same for each viewer..or reader. in many ways they are polar opposites but i think that's what makes them gel together so well in an art context.
so what kind of science are you invloved in?
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sorry I took so long to reply ... Its a difficult question to answer ... I've mainly worked short term contracts as a data analyst, space weather, cancer, genetics and at the moment Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's is the one for me though ... doing a Master's and thinking about Ph.D but at 40 I may be too old ...
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..it's my turn to say sorry for not replying sooner. it's been a hectic time working on mural projects with zany teenagers who think it's funny to use me as some kinda human canvas... 
it sounds like your job is full on.... it must be cool to have your artwork to get lost in after a day of analyzing data. your latest pieces are great. the metamorph is brill.
so at the moment you're analyzing data on Alzheimer's, right.... is that to find a cure or to slow the process down or to just find out what Alzheimer's is all about? what happens to the data once you've analyzed it?
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You are welcome, it is very intriguing and a beautiful piece of art!
LOL!! You mean you actually went to that ... I'd better get round to tidying it up a bit ... but seriously, thanks for taking the time to have a look!
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Thanks very much!!
yeah i took a look at your web site. you've got some great work on there. i really like the idea of art combined with science. they're polar opposites but they can merge together very well. the fractals you've made, and worked on in photoshop are very cool. The "come undone " image is awesome as is your current deviation. i look forward to seeing more of your work.
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