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Endless Column
Endless Column. Stockholm, 1975. Wooden bows, chain, string.
Photograph: Yildirim Arici


Colonne sans fin (Endless Column)

This artwork plays on the principle of bows applying tension on a chain.

Without any hard parts touching each other, the piece stands upright by itself as each bow stretches taught the part of chain it spans. It can be done with a single thread and bended pieces of hard material.

Scientific phenomenon: force vectors