411 // MA-P / Man Ray
I came across this image quite a while ago… but just thought about putting it onto my blog…
The impossible machine by Man Ray: Dancer – Danger / L´Impossibilité. A machine which is only depicted by its gearing, but where cog-wheels and pinion-racks are unable to operate. In his essay “Machines: The Funcional Impossibility” José Bragança de Miranda describes this image with the help of the duality between the fascination for machines (Dancer) and at the same time its in a way rational and functional processing (Danger)…
Well, I am not getting into it right now, but I like this image as it describes a problem loads of people do when they illustrate something with cogs and gears: Creating an impossible clockwork…
