2021 Art Installations – Smoky Hill River Festival

NEW THIS YEAR

Events Center Bridge

Standing Wave 2021
by Mike Miller, in partnership with the Salina Art Center

City: Wichita, KS

Mike Miller is best known for his Machine-Nature Interface series of sculptures. These machine-nature forms combine a natural object with a man-made object, creating a machine that produces an original movement or action. Most of Mike’s works are kinetic, whether powered by a motor and salvaged gears, hand crank, the wind, or kids on a swing set. The movements produced echo the machinations of nature itself- plants’ production of oxygen and the orbit of a moon around a planet. As man-made machines and nature-made machines advance, the difference between the two becomes indistinguishable. Mike was born, raised, and educated in Kansas and finds inspiration and materials for both the machine and the natural aspects of his work around his home and studio in rural Butler County.

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