Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Installs New Work at Texas A&M Zachry Engineering Education Complex

Prototype for Stellar Interloper (Silver Surfer)

Carbon fiber and aluminum alloy-foil
By Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Location: Levels 2 & 3, ZACH

About this Piece

The evolution of this compelling form began with a simple, yet elegant, parabola referencing both compression and flow. The parabolic profile of a theoretical bow wave is made three-dimensional, replicating itself three times, and undergoing a twisted rotation on its vertical axis to create a complex double torus, mirrored vertically to suggest an infinite flow from top to bottom and bottom to top.

This artwork can be said to be a meditation on the fluid dynamics of liquids and gas, or revolving topology of surfaces, or vortex mechanics, or the forces of comprehension and tension, and it certainly calls to mind aeronautical design, and yet it is not confined to any single area of study.

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