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Anthony Howe (born 1954, Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. He makes use of computer-aided design , shaping the metal components with a plasma cutter , and completing his work by use of traditional metalworking techniques.
His kinetic wind sculptures were designed to exhibit graceful movement and interaction with the wind; with a few powering spotlights to showcase his pieces and one that triggered music as it rotated. His work often took the form of birds or weather vanes, and typically stood more than fifty feet in height.
Further, she states, “[Sherwood’s] sculpture celebrates botanical forms and patterns in nature with proportional harmony". [5] Although most of his best-known sculptures are intended for installation outdoors where they are activated by the wind, Sherwood has begun to create delicate indoors sculptures activated by random air currents. [1]
Solo is a spring-driven kinetic sculpture designed in 2014. The motion of flight has been a recurring theme in his work first appearing in 1988 in a sculpture called Flight . Variation II Sun is a spring-driven kinetic sculpture designed in 2014.
During the past 40 years he has primarily focused upon creating "wind sculptures" which are handmade kinetic art that responds to the changing currents of the wind. His compositions vary from single, 5 foot (1.5 m) tall pieces to "Wind Forests" consisting of groups of sculptures standing up to 35 foot (11 m) tall. [1]
In 2012, a 3,000-sq.-meter open-air sculpture garden was established in Sanda, Japan, named the Susumu Shingū Wind Museum.Starting in 2019, he began designing and architecting a utopian village next to the museum, named Atelier Earth.