Etoile VIII
Date
1983
Creator
Location
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Etoile VIII, a maquette from 1983 for a larger version, is made of many fluttering, circling, and individually rotating parts that offer an endless array of potential movements. In a 1984 discussion of how he approached motion in this sculpture, Rickey explained: "My intention is that these periods [of oscillation] be slightly different from one another, and that they be long enough so that the observer cannot easily anticipate reversal of direction." from Kephart, Passages of Light and Time: George Rickey's Life in Motion (Notre Dame, 2009)
![Etoile VIII, a maquette from 1983 for a larger version, is made of many fluttering, circling, and individually rotating parts that offer an endless array of potential movements. In a 1984 discussion of how he approached motion in this sculpture, Rickey explained: "My intention is that these periods [of oscillation] be slightly different from one another, and that they be long enough so that the observer cannot easily anticipate reversal of direction."
from Kephart, Passages of Light and Time: George Rickey's Life in Motion (Notre Dame, 2009)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2009.064.016%2F2009_064_016-v0006%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Etoile VIII, a maquette from 1983 for a larger version, is made of many fluttering, circling, and individually rotating parts that offer an endless array of potential movements. In a 1984 discussion of how he approached motion in this sculpture, Rickey explained: "My intention is that these periods [of oscillation] be slightly different from one another, and that they be long enough so that the observer cannot easily anticipate reversal of direction."
from Kephart, Passages of Light and Time: George Rickey's Life in Motion (Notre Dame, 2009)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2009.064.016%2F2009_064_016-v0051%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Etoile VIII, a maquette from 1983 for a larger version, is made of many fluttering, circling, and individually rotating parts that offer an endless array of potential movements. In a 1984 discussion of how he approached motion in this sculpture, Rickey explained: "My intention is that these periods [of oscillation] be slightly different from one another, and that they be long enough so that the observer cannot easily anticipate reversal of direction."
from Kephart, Passages of Light and Time: George Rickey's Life in Motion (Notre Dame, 2009)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2009.064.016%2F2009_064_016-v0045%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Etoile VIII, a maquette from 1983 for a larger version, is made of many fluttering, circling, and individually rotating parts that offer an endless array of potential movements. In a 1984 discussion of how he approached motion in this sculpture, Rickey explained: "My intention is that these periods [of oscillation] be slightly different from one another, and that they be long enough so that the observer cannot easily anticipate reversal of direction."
from Kephart, Passages of Light and Time: George Rickey's Life in Motion (Notre Dame, 2009)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2009.064.016%2F2009_064_016-v0044%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Etoile VIII, a maquette from 1983 for a larger version, is made of many fluttering, circling, and individually rotating parts that offer an endless array of potential movements. In a 1984 discussion of how he approached motion in this sculpture, Rickey explained: "My intention is that these periods [of oscillation] be slightly different from one another, and that they be long enough so that the observer cannot easily anticipate reversal of direction."
from Kephart, Passages of Light and Time: George Rickey's Life in Motion (Notre Dame, 2009)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2009.064.016%2F2009_064_016-v0043%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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