The Door of Perception
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness of it. He clearly enjoys creating and his ever evolving creatures don’t need to serve another purpose. Plastic tubes and wind can still makes us stand in awe, isn’t this wonderful.
At the end of the post you find a few additional videos
Evolution is a miracle.
It makes me so happy that I wanna make a miracle myself as well.
Theo Jansen
A selection of images by Lena Herzog
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