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www.ralfonso.com - INFINITY 2 Disc

Ralfonso — 1093879217

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Description: Here shown in combination with a water fountain and water and light effects.

www.ralfonso.com - G-RINGS

Ralfonso — 1093879216

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Description: Outdoor, large wind-driven kinetic sculpture for public places. �G-Rings� sculptures can range from 6ft height to much larger. The �G-Rings� rotate in various speeds, at various angles, in opposite directions in a gyroscopic fashion, depending on the prevailing winds. This sculpture is specifically designed for the tough outdoor environment using inert and easy to clean and maintain fiberglass, carbon and Kevlar laminates, similar to the ones used in high performance yacht design.

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www.ralfonso.com - EXOCENTRIC SPIRITS

Ralfonso — 1093879214

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Description: Indoor, suspended mobile. These colorful disc modules in 5 different sizes and colors have color-matched translucent gel lenses, so that any light from above leaves a gently moving and ever- changing light and color compositions on the floor, as well as eye-catching colored reflections on the ceiling. The modular structure allows for a custom vertical and lateral volume distribution and sizing for any particular Indoor space, so there are interesting views from all sides, as well as from below. This colorful and impressively large-scale, complex sculpture is most always in motion, and always changing shape � attracting attention and delighting onlookers.

www.ralfonso.com - EXOCENTRIC SPIRITS

Ralfonso — 1093879214

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Description: Here shown in an office setting where the atrium lights create "wandering" color patterns on the floor

www.ralfonso.com - MOVING ON UP

Ralfonso — 1093878358

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Description: Here shown during the August 2004 one month solo exhibition at the Grand Hotel Europe-Kempinski in St. Petersburg, Russia

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www.ralfonso.com - MOVING ON UP

Ralfonso — 1093878356

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Description: BASE DESIGN: There are several ways to design the base: 1) Kinetic � Rotating: The base can designed so it could comfortably accommodate a circular sitting area for the wary visitors, while slowly rotating them and the sculpture according to the prevailing wind. 2) It could serve as CLOCK, by being clock-motor rotated 360 degrees per hour � with an appropriate hourly chime, bell or melody as well as color changes of the powerful illumination at night. It can also be used as a SUNDIAL, indicating time and season on circles inlayed in the surrounding floor area. 3) Alternatively the rotating platform can be at the top of a fixed tiered circular sitting and rest area or a circular traffic island. 4) WATER - It can also be centered in a FOUNTAIN, a pond a lake, or river. In the water based version, you will not see the submerged base, which will rotate the sculpture according to prevailing winds and water-flow.

www.ralfonso.com - WORLD CLOCK

Ralfonso — 1093878356

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Description: In or Outdoor, large wall-hanging kinetic sculpture for public places. The World Clock consists of 2 clock-type arms with colorful lenses at each end. Unlike clock-type arms these are hinged. A small pin mounted on the rear disc moves both arms from their hanging, inert state at the 6PM location to their start position at their 12PM location, where they then swing due to gravity and turn freely in a graceful and quite spectacular manner. This wall sculpture is modular - each World Clock takes a different interval to be brought to its starting position, so that with the help of subtle markings, an observer can actually tell the Time, Day, Month and Year and Internet Time from looking at this moving piece of art. There will be chime or melody type audio clues as well. Similar to the great animated marketplace clock towers in Europe, which attract crowds waiting for 12 AM to see the automatons and hear the chimes, the release of the World Clock arms will attract tourists and locals alike.

www.ralfonso.com - RED BARON

Ralfonso — 1093877360

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Description: In and Outdoor, kinetic wind-driven sculpture for public places. Red Baron is a wind-driven kinetic steel sculpture, which always moves into the wind on a rotating base. Much like a weather vane it always points its "nose" tip into the wind. The 4 tiered aerodynamic design is reminiscent of the fabled Red Baron's triple-decker plane which served as a desing inspiration for this sculpture. This design has been exhibited in March 2001 at the at the Palm Beach Armory Center for the Arts, Palm Beach, Florida.

www.ralfonso.com - INFINITY 6 Disc

Ralfonso — 1093877360

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Description: INFINITY Public Art Embedded, this kinetic sculpture offers numerous cross-reflections of the rotating red Infinity Center in the highly polished Chrome Rings that surround it. Here Infinity move around 2 axis simultaneously.

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www.ralfonso.com - INFINITY

Ralfonso — 1093877359

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Description: INFINITY is a wind or motor-driven kinetic aluminum/steel sculpture, which rotates simultaneously on multiple axis! The heart of Infinity 1 is an array of 36 metal discs, representing the 360 degrees of freedom in a compass rose. Due to the intricate assembly, the eye and the mind are fully engaged, following movement on 2, 3 or even 4 axis simultaneously of this complex and unique kinetic sculpture.

www.ralfonso.com - MOVING ON UP

Ralfonso — 1093877359

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Description: Outdoor, monumental wind-driven kinetic sculpture for public places. PHILOSOPHY: �MOVING ON UP� is a monumental sculpture, about the soaring celebration of life, possibility and the desire to explore new boundaries! Its swirling form, as it turns on its rotating platform, not only conveys a sense of dynamic motion, but also of time passing. Its constantly shifting aspect views reflect our ever-changing perception of the reality around us.

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