Tensegrity sculpture
FLUXE
by Gerald de Jong
I am a software developer at heart before I was an artist. The instinct never left me, it just found new materials: steel, cable and tension.
In the 90's, I stood in front of a Kenneth Snelson sculpture and felt something shift. I got curious. I got ambitious. The will to build something massive and inspiring became the core for me. Something that will make people stop and ask: How is that even possible?
Life intervened. Family came first. But now my children are grown, and I'm raising something new.
This is Fluxe. An invitation. Not finished, just growing.
What is Tensegrity?
Tensegrity (tension + integrity) is a structural principle based on only push and pull — continuous tension and floating compression. No rigid connections. No glue. No welds holding it upright. Just balance.
Invented artistically by Kenneth Snelson in the 1960s and later named by Buckminster Fuller, tensegrity appears throughout biology, as shown by Tom Flemons. It's a system where every part supports the whole through pure interplay of forces.
So I took the idea and put my own twist to it.
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