Great Throughts Treasury

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Reuben Margolin, fully Reuben Heyday Margolin

American Artist and Sculptor known for his mechanically-driven kinetic sculptures of wave-forms

"It's not like I'm trying to copy nature -- I'm trying to relate to it."

"The Earth is neither flat nor round; it's wavy."

"This tension between the need to look deeper and the beauty in the immediacy of the world ? is what makes [my] sculptures move."

"What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?"