We end our posts on public art high points with George Rickey's Double L Excentric Gyratory. Like Len Lye's Wind Wand in New Plymouth, Double L Excentric Gyratory is activated by wind and the play of light. The perfectly balanced L-shaped vanes of this elegant work move lazily in response to the slightest breeze or dive and whirl with stronger gusts. It reflects the mood of the day as the austere geometric shapes, with their randomly patterned reflective surfaces, describe perfect arcs and planes in space and when the wind dies, return to the symmetry and equilibrium of the vanes vertical station.
Previously sited in the courtyard of the Auckland Art Gallery, Double L Excentric Gyratory was decommissioned recently to make way for a new extension, but it will be reinstalled when the Gallery reopens in 2011.
Images: George Rickey, Double L Excentric Gyratory, 1985, gifted to the Auckland Art Gallery by the Edmiston Trust
