Hasta La Ideas

Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is pleased to present David Butts of Mad Dog Garage!

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

David Butts
Mad Dog Garage: “A Reverence For Gears – Making and Using Gears in Kinetic Sculpture”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, 6pm PST

Dave’s sculptures start as an idea and proceed to hand sketches, notes and drawings. If the design looks like it will work, it’s rendered accurately in AutoCAD. If AutoCAD doesn’t expose a fatal flaw, a rough working prototype is built, and then final construction. David uses found and re-purposed objects, and builds from wood, plastic and various metals. He incorporates gears in his sculptures because they symbolize machines and industry, and they are shorthand for the workings of the universe. He loves gears: planning them, cutting them, and watching them work.

David Butts’ Mad Dog Garage exists in the iconic Allen’s Radiator Shop in the NW neighborhood of downtown Portland, OR. A bevy of fabrication implements: lathes, milling machines, an assortment of saws, drill presses and other tool miscellanea are used to create his work – interactive kinetic sculptures that can be experienced by passers by in his “sidewalk gallery.”

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