Flight Wind Reeds

*Flight Wind Reeds* refers to elements of flight and the abstracted parts of an airplane. This is the second in the Buchens’ series of kinetic sculptures inspired by television images of Russian fighter pilots performing aerial stunts. The pilots fly their planes at 700 mph and then suddenly cut the engines off, causing the planes to flip up and backward. The sleek, aerodynamic forms of the reeds seem designed for speed, and they perform a similar stunt in response to wind force, spinning and then flipping up. *Flight Wind Reeds* makes visible the invisible—the motion, speed, sound, and physical energy of the wind.