… I had a lot of down time in my hospital bed and … I used a styrofoam cup, string from gauze, medical tape, and a couple paper clips I found and made myself a lovely little mobile that really helped calm my nerves. Very meditative. And as always, the creative process feeds my soul. Thank you for sharing your gift and helping us learn to have fun! No matter what is going on!”
— Sarah Alessandro
When the students are armed with tools and instructions, having watched demonstrations, we are eager to try hands- on practice [and] a meditative, repetitive industriousness pervades the room…. After some wobbling and seesawing, the mobiles … gain a new life, a precarious and beautiful balance hovering in a somewhat reluctant harmony. Like clouds that are soothing almost because they could burst into rain but don’t, yet … mesmerizing because a visual proof is achieved to show a manipulated, palpable balance, though precarious (temporary?); the serenity of a human-made order in a chaotic world…”
— Amy Mccormick
Having fun with mobiles
To make a mobile gives me creative satisfaction and total absorption in the process. Mobiles are all about balance and movement — two qualities I strive for in life. The principles of balancing mobiles and the techniques of building them can be learned in the beginning mobile making class offered by Vladimir Barsukov. Then you are on your way to create whatever you can imagine.”
— Carolyn Kingston
In the act of creating something new, something artful, we lose track of time. With mobiles we also enter a new realm, one of light, air, and balance. Balancing different shapes, colors and weights, we are challenged to think in another dimension. Each time we place one object in relation to another within the mobile’s sphere of action, we need to find the point of balance. And finding that point is like a small miracle, a second in time and space when everything works — an amazing moment of recognition. The tiniest shift and the balance could be gone…. The entire experience is healthful and healing.”
— Irene Fairley