Najiha Puteri

Najiha Puteri

Humanizing Gears: Tensions & Harmony

This is an analog installation of gears. Gears as representative of societies, cultures and groups of people, this work touches on their nature - mechanical, predictable and structured, but with added interaction of these gears, these gears are "humanized".
With two installations in place, "Tensions" is a wall installation with two handles to turn gears and suspend balls. These are magnet contained balls to create attraction or repulsion between them. "Harmony" is a table installation of gears, where turning of handles would allow "drawing" of balls to be made across the sand.