My father is a scientist, an inventor, and a tinkerer. His influence on me shows in my affinity towards building contraptions and incorporating these in my art.

 

"A praxinoscope is a 19th-century optical toy, invented by Émile Reynaud in 1877, that creates the illusion of motion from a sequence of images by using a rotating cylinder with a central mirror system instead of the zoetrope's slits, resulting in a brighter, clearer animation, and served as a precursor to modern cinema." – Google

 

I’ve always found the experience of illusion, and the mechanisms that produce it, mesmerizing, so it’s no surprise that I would endeavor to design and build one of my own.