Jeff Sugar
Thank you for entering my website. Work shown here features metal mobiles I have been crafting for the last six years. In my day job I am a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist. In both art and science, we touch the surface and then go deeper. The psychiatrist seeks understanding that will lead to growth. The artist seeks an experience that triggers wonder.
CLOSEUP MAGIC & CONTROLLED SERENDIPITY
What are you looking at? Now, pause to examine whatever platform holds these words or any other nearby object. Now look a full 180° behind. Now look at the sides. Notice how the same object might appear simple and clean from one point of view, but complicated and messy from another. Seen all together, the changes from these shifting perspectives are not surprising. Magicians performing close-up card tricks can’t escape the laws of physics. Yet when the missing card is pulled from the magician’s empty hand, we find the illusion astonishing. Sometimes the greatest surprise is the one we do see coming.
Read my full Artist’s Statement here.
Collection
I make metal mobiles to express what I call, “Controlled Serendipity.” Each piece of the mobile spins in harmony with the others, and the whole never moves in exactly the same way twice. Though we think we know what to expect, the mobile never ceases to surprise.
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You Talking to Me?
Secret Doctrine
Getting Ahead
Sprite
Shoot
Punk Rocker
Indras Triangles
Simone Leaping
A Gathering of Friends
On Point
Who's Facing
The Swan
Flat Androids Jumping
All Wrapped Up
Angel Landing
Flat Android Steps Up
Menagerie
Platonic Friends
Throw Dem Arms
Evolving Small Stabile
Around They Go
Square Path to Zero
One With Everything
Angel Rising
Rockstar
Most Got Bent
Spiral Inside
