Teslacon 2015 devices...

These are some pieces created to wear to a steampunk convention.

This arm piece gets strapped onto the forearm and has a wind-up music box component. It is a time/space travel device using the power of music to move people. Carefully calibrated to the individual (because not everything moves everyone).

Amy Bethel, Amy.Bethel.art@gmail.com, RearrangeTheFire.blogspot.com

Phoenix: Toward a Resurgence of Kindness

Just put a piece up at the central library here in Madison (first floor, Mifflin St. side). It'll be there for a couple months. Come by and tear off a bit of paper, write a wish for an anonymous someone, attach it to one of the paperclips on the bird's tail, then take a wish for yourself. Pretty much guaranteed to brighten your day...as well as someone else's.

Made primarily from typewriter parts—Special thanks to Harry Webne-Berman, Kate Hewson, and Amy Wencel for donating typewriters to support my sculpture habit.

 

Amy Bethel, Amy.Bethel.art@gmail.com, RearrangeTheFire.blogspot.com

Wish Box

Exhibited a new piece at the Pinney Library that's interactive--a wish box. Here are some pix and also some of the wonderful wishes people left. Visitors were invited to write a wish for another (anonymous) person and take a wish left by someone else.

Amy Bethel, Amy.Bethel.art@gmail.com, RearrangeTheFire.blogspot.com

Bat

Bats are one of my favorite animals--the only true flying mammal.

Amy Bethel, Amy.Bethel.art@gmail.com, RearrangeTheFire.blogspot.com

Winged Armor

Small suit of winged armor, adding machine parts, clock parts, typewriter parts, small mannequin; found the mannequin at a second-hand store and thought it looked the perfect framework for tiny armor (actually around 14" high)

Amy Bethel, Amy.Bethel.art@gmail.com, RearrangeTheFire.blogspot.com