Machines for Living

Constructed Sculptures by Paul Baker

The Swiss architect Le Corbusier said once “a house should be a machine for living”. In fact, we could all use different sorts of machines, depending on what’s going on in our life at various times. My Machines start with an archaic definition of the word, as an aid or helper. A lever, for example, was considered a machine by medieval masons. The interactive sculptures in this ongoing series are built to help us examine our lives with insight and possibly some humor.