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Ruderis muscipula
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“RUDERIS MUSCIPULA” – garden-park kinetic-contact sculpture, dimensions: 2 х 3.5 meters.
Sculpture authors – Vilgeniy Melnikov and Maxim Gerasimenko.
The idea behind the creation of such a sculpture was inspired by nature itself, which is so diverse that it encompasses not only predatory animals but predatory plants as well. These include various trap-plants: their leaves are equipped with teeth and tentacles, which they use to catch and digest their prey.
We hope that our “Ruderis muscipula,” much like living plants that adapt to their natural surroundings, will help the ecosystem cleanse itself of the environmental pollution generated by man.
When creating the sculpture, we were guided by the principle according to which trap-plants function, but, unlike the living version, our flower will operate by pressing the pedal cleverly concealed next to the sculpture – when the pedal is depressed, the flower starts to open and close its “mouth” as it twitches all of the fibrils found on its stem.
The illustration to the right of the sculpture provides the structure’s operating schematic. Crushed metallic waste will be deposited inside the opening petals. The illustration to the left depicts the operating schematic behind the opening of the head of the flower via depression of the pedal. The mechanism will be balanced in such a way that once the pedal has been depressed, the construction will continue to move for a while without auxiliary power sources.