| Jim
Pallas (Allan Stone): In the post-Star Wars world, Pallas says cybernetic entities have believable qualities. Made of welded steel covered in colored acrylic lacquer they include beads, feathers, plastic shapes and bags as well as motors, solenoids and light-emitting diodes. Their miniaturized computer logic allows them to react to light, wind or passing viewers. One of the most commanding figures, The Guardian, as a body composed of a yellow plastic sack which swells importantly with air from time to time. Fierce of aspect himself, the Guardian also has a single dog-headed and bewhiskered foot which extends before him as a lesser manifestation of his role. Pallas' Portrait of the Artist consists of a silver mask with strands of beads suggesting hair and a long inflated plastic tube extending upwards into space. The mask confronts the viewer at eye level, the transparent tube serving as a metaphor for mind. Suspended from the armature which supports the tube internally are piston driven wires with small weights attached which rise and fall, occasionally hitting one another with a clicking sound. The humor which Pallas brings to his work allows him to express clearly his declared concern with kinetic interaction between viewer and sculpture without descending to pedantry. |
20" dia., 20' l.
Painted welded steel, polyethelene bag, plaster face cast with glass beads, circuitry.
63" x 58" x 34"
acrylic lacquer on steel, circuitry, polyethylene bag,
responds to infra-red (body heat) movement.
Allan Stone Collection