Daniel Wiener’s soft machines (opens in new tab)

Contributed by Laurence Hegarty / Daniel Wiener’s naming system for his own work is quite precise. On his website, he states of the piece titled Clutching: “Genre: Sculpture | Like: Bowl | Placed: On A Shelf. ” Most would recognize that it is, well, a sculpture like a bowl, wherever it is placed. Wiener’s work dallies on a threshold between aesthetic bliss and mundane function. Into his semi functional world Wiener has smuggled images of faces: toothy grins, mouths agape, and wide-awake eyes ...