Movement Stack

Dryden Well’s use of meat or animal parts lends his sculpture an uncanny presence — the biological forms destabilised by a residual abstraction and odd purveying comedy in the value of use of such odd source material. The kinetics of “Movement Stack 8” seem bound to the structural dynamics of muscle (and in direct conflict with the natural solidity of the clean ceramic casts), exploiting the sense of compressed energy conveyed in the wings in a repeated sequence to create a pouncing movement even in stasis.