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Anthony Howe (born 1954,

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, Utah) is an American kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. He makes use of

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, shaping the metal components with a plasma cutter, and completing his work by use of traditional metalworking techniques. Howe notably designed a cauldron and accompanying kinetic sculpture for the

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in Rio, Brazil.

Education and work

Howe attended The Taft School between 1969 and 1973, and for the next 6 years was enrolled at

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and

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. In 1979 he built a house on a remote mountaintop in

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. Here he painted beautiful landscapes for a wonderful five years, and displayed his work at 'Gallery on the Green' in

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. His paintings may be found in the collections of Teradyne,

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, the

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collection and other public and private collections. In 1985 Howe moved to

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and turned from painting to kinetic sculpting. Four years later his first work was hung from old elevator cables stretched between buildings. In 1993 he joined the

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in New York, and the following year moved to Orcas Island in

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, where he once again built a house and opened his own gallery. He claims one of his methods of testing the sculptures is by fixing them to top of his van and then driving down the local airstrip. In August 2015, Howe was offered the role of designing a cauldron for the

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. The games' organizers had decided not to have a larger cauldron and flame as part of an effort to be environmentally conscious, resulting in the construction of a small cauldron with a larger kinetic sculpture to accompany it; the sculpture, which consists of ring of rotating bars, a 40 ft (12.2 m) in diameter, with reflective plates and spheres, was meant to enhance the appearance of the smaller flame, providing an effect inspired by the "pulsing energy and reflection of light" of the sun. The sculpture was designed at his studio on Orcas Island, with final construction occurring in

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before being shipped to Rio. Howe cauldron kinetic sculpture principle

References

External links

* Official website.
Video by Elizabeth Rudge
* Compilation Videos of Howe's Works -- -- -
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