Help Needed

WANTED : A smart, creative, engineer and $5,000 (My Ideal Art Show)

I am an abstract artist that uses various mechanical movement devices to display my 4-sided abstract works.
I have come across many difficulties in finding some creative electrical, mechanical, and computer engineers

able to think "out of the box", to help me customize turning devices to suit my needs.

My basic flat standard canvases are abstracts painted to turn 360 degrees on the wall using battery operated

Lazy Susan turners.
All I have found do not precisely stop every 90 degrees for say two minutes, and continue turning clockwise displaying each of the 4 sides of the canvas.
This can be seen in animated gif photos of my paintings on my website:
www.revolvingpaintdream.com Click on "Animated Gallery".

In my canvases there is something different to "see" on every side, one side "blending" into the next.
So a standard flat rectangular canvas with 4 different sides , has something different to see or experience on

each of the sides. Viewing the canvas in one position reveals something completely different if you turn it 90 degrees or 180, etc... So there is no "right way up".

All my art is meant to be viewed from every possible angle.

Perhaps a "Geneva Wheel Stop" attached to a continuous turning motor will allow it to stop every 90 degrees

for two minutes and continue on.
I have also been wanting to take that a step further.

I have been researching various methods of displaying 3-dimensional objects
[ie. cubes, spheres, etc...] and painting them.
So the abstract work on one side blends into all the other sides.
[on a cube, one side blends into another side blends into top & bottom, etc..]

Painting on 3 foot tall Jacob's Ladders, etc..

On a large scale I am trying to get a custom multi-axis trainer [gyro] that pilots , astronauts, and fair goers get

inside [ring-inside a ring, inside a ring] to train for motion sickness in 0 gravity.
They turn the person inside the rings 580 + degrees.
So I'm looking for someone to take my 3-4 foot painted cube and build one of these gyros around it , so it will quietly & SLOWLY rotate , showing all sides of the cube. One side blending into the next, into the next...

I just need the cash & know how to have the turning mechanisms built.

I also want a internal battery powered , self-contained plexi-glass covered painted cube
[say 12-15 inches] that walks across the floor. If it hits the wall it changes direction.

Currently I am working on smaller painted cubes [but as large as magnets can support at a reasonable price]
and I magnetically levitate them so the hollow painted cubes float under their magnet support , and continually rotate slowly, displaying all the sides [on the one plane in this case, since the internal magnets

have to maintain a specific distance].

This magnetic shelf from England shows how it works.
The opposing magnets are mounted inside the hollow painted cube.
Enabling the cube to float & turn continually around showing each of the sides.
When I am finished with this I plan to post a video of it working on this site.

Any help or advice or recommendations you can make for any of my projects are greatly appreciated.
I've been working on this for about 8 years.

So if you know somebody who knows somebody please let me know.

WANTED : A Smart, Creative, Engineer and someone to foot the bill.
Or a nice grant. That's where I'm at.

I envision a large gallery room .
Paintings rotating on the wall.
In the middle of the room a large 4 foot cube rotating [580+degrees] slowly inside motorized rings.
Small cubes floating in the air magnetically and rotating.
Cubes under their own power walking across the floor.
And perhaps later continuing to walk UP the wall using pulleys or magnets.

I have about 10 other movement technique ideas that have specific requirements for maneuvering

several canvases to combine and rearrange to make larger abstracts. Every time they reconnect reveals

a separate feeling or view.

One day I'll have to tell you about my room size Projector Kaleidoscopes.

Click here to read about why movement is important to my art :
http://revolvingpaintdream.com/movement

Herman Snell

hwsnell@yahoo.com

www.revolvingart.com