Wind Machine

2002

This is one of Vollis Simpson's Whirligigs. It is located in the park at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh.

"Simpson’s fame came near the end of his life. He was born in 1919 to a farming family with 12 children. As a boy, he helped his father supplement the family income by moving houses. After retiring at 65, he started tinkering around with his collection of odd parts. Using some of the same rigs he’d developed for moving houses, Simpson began constructing enormous windmills in his yard. The Whirligigs incorporate highway and road signs, HVAC fans, bicycles, ceiling fans, mirrors, stovepipes, I-beams, pipe, textile mill rollers, ball bearings, aluminum sheeting, various woods, steel rods, rings, pans, milkshake mixers and many more such materials form the support and moving parts.

In 2010, a plan was announced to create the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park in Historic Downtown Wilson, NC. Simpson died in 2013 at 94, but not before seeing the first of his creations installed in the park that bears his name."

Vollis is considered an outside artist. Another one of his whirligigs is located in Baltimore, MD at the American Visionary Museum. He brought a lot of tourists to his farm. I wish I had made the time to visit while he was still alive.

It was windy, so I had to lean against the pole. The sky kept changing. I took out some spots in the blue paint and added a border with ON1 Effects.

You can see some other shots from the park on my flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/needlepointernc/

Taken through the sunroof of the truck.

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Late afternoon shot looking up this beautiful tree in my yard.

i wish i were a drop of dew

upon a blossom new

tho cronos deems not possible

my heart yet wish it true

Bruce, not doing what he is supposed to be doing, but it looks pretty nice, doesn't it.

Gazebo Artwork at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix

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If you came over my house and laid down on my dining room table, this is what it would look like.

But if I were you, I'd take a good, hard look at that table before plopping down. You never know what sticky substance the girls might have left behind.

It grows.

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c.f., this photograph and this one and this one…

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he grew up tall and handsome; I was just around all this time

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Zaanse Schans windmills

Behind the oak branches

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I expect you didn't know that there are only 2 wind turbines in the world that have a viewing platform. I expect you didn't know one of them happens to be designed by Sir Norman Foster. I also expect you didn't know that that one is in, well, Swaffham. Not the best view in the world, but, you know, its up a wind turbine, and Sir Norman Foster designed it. So there.

Swaffham, Norfolk, UK

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Sand Springs Oklahoma, a man who started the widows colony, a series of small cottages and worked to bring in industry to help the single women become self supporting

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