For Jue Chang — Fifty Strokes to Each (1998), Chen
stretched animal skins over the flat surfaces of more than one hundred chairs and beds collected from different parts of the world, creating makeshift drums hung from a large wooden frame.
It features a 2.5» warrior with bow and arrow, a 2.25» warrior with club, a 2.5» robed chief, a 2.25» mother with nude child on her back, a 1.5» tall 2» wide woman fanning a fire, a 2» child carrying corn, a 1.5» tall by 2.25» long bear, a 1.5» by 2»
stretched animal skin, a 1.25» tall by 2» long fox, a 2.75» long dugout canoe and a 2» by 2» deer.
Not exact matches
Passive robots in the form of sedentary
animals may be less flashy than a bird
skin stretched over a robotic frame, but they can be just as good at keeping tabs on their environment — and significantly less nasty.
Gliding is achieved by this
animal by launching off the tops of trees and extending flaps of
skin stretched from arms to legs: once they have launched themselves into the air they are highly manuverable while in flight.