Gathering & Approaching
Stand at the edge of the structure. Do not enter immediately. Observe. The gears are still, but they carry the memory of prior movement. Trace the arc of their potential rotation, their worn wooden edges smoothed by past hands and bodies. Feel the latent tension in the teeth of the wooden gears.
arc your body over the wheel. Feel the soft of your body pressing itself into the hardness, gravity pulling skin over its taut surfaces. Your body is now part of the structure. Press your sternum, your stomach, your kidneys tightly against the exterior curve shaped by the horizontal wooden rods that compose its central column around which the gear turns. The gear does not move yet, but it is listening—waiting for pressure, for weight, for the commitment of movement.
Ungrounding
Shift your weight forward. The first motion is slow, a resistance met with friction. Wood meets timber. The space around you tilts as the structure responds. You are no longer in static relation to the ground; your axis of movement is changing.
Lean into the motion. Gravity pulls at you, but you determine the speed. Find the rhythm between force and control, motion and pause. Notice the recalibration of your equilibrium as the gear rolls forward. The loft floor beneath you is no longer a fixed plane but a shifting horizon.
Feel the system at work. Your movement is not isolated—it transfers into the framework, through the gears, into the weight of others. Every lean, every shift in balance, every pause affects the whole. You are part of a kinetic network.
Assembly & Attunement
Synchronize with others. The wheels move in tandem, a system of linked motion. Listen—not just with your ears, but with your body—to the momentum of your fellow participants. The system will not function without collective presence.
Test resistance and release. Slow down. Stop. Observe how your own movement lingers in the system, the way momentum continues even as you pause. Let another body take control. Re-enter at a different angle, a different weight distribution, and feel how the work adapts.
Disrupt the pattern. Shift direction. Press against the grain of the movement. What does reversal feel like? How does the system react when tension is applied unevenly? The wheels are not merely objects but instruments of negotiation, adjusting to force, unpredictability, and variation.
Exiting & Residual Motion
Step out, but do not assume stillness. The wheels are still in motion. Your body has left the structure, but your impact remains—a delayed ripple, a slowed rotation, a memory of weight and inertia still carried in the gears.
Look back. The work is not over. The wheels will keep turning until equilibrium is lost. Consider how your presence changed the system. How did the architecture respond to you? And how have you, in turn, been altered by it?