Have you ever met someone who has accomplished so much in their life that you simultaneously envy, hate, worship, and admire them?I have only known of Brad Litwin for this one day so far in my life, and he has already become an inspiration. I was thoroughly impressed by his lecture; his humor, his displayed work, his resume', even his formidable guitar skills... but I didn't feel the weight of his impact, until I experienced his kinetic sculptures face to face in the lobby this afternoon.
I once stared at a Dali painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art for five minutes... Five minutes! I took much longer today finding my way out of the piece I featured here by Litwin. His work is like a dream and yet so factual and tangible, that the viewer can't help but feel they've slipped into an extra-dimensional coma that they have no desire to wake up from. Litwin makes corporeal and animated the kinds of dreamworlds that the undeniable genius Dr. Seuss could only paint or draw. The exhibit reminded me that mechanical spectacles like these occur on the smallest scale inside of machines as massive as cruise-liners and as small as an iPod Shuffle. The real world can often seem too crude to catch up to our imaginations. In the rare cases of artists like Bradley N. Litwin, Jim Henson, Henry Sellick, and Leonardo DaVinci, a razor sharp mind can command the material world to look and feel like something... imaginary.
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