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Flip & Two Twisters
Television (Full Length) – 1995
Unless you can keep trying to find something that’s simply fascinating to you there’s not much point ... so wait until you’re in the mood ... and you find a piece of steel ... and you might go [rolls steel] like this with it, and roll it about ... and you gradually get the grip of an idea.
– Len Lye on the importance of getting in the mood
I’m composing figures of motion - and I’m composing them out of very springy spring steel.
– Len Lye on his process
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