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John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams


Fascinated by 19th- and 20th-century innovations, Peralta dismantles and painstakingly reassembles each item piece by piece.

Escher, Peralta spent a lot of time drawing with pencil and charcoal, and art eventually morphed from a hobby to a full-time pursuit. Elaborate film reels inside a Bolex 16mm camera or the gears and keys of a Hammond Multiplex typewriter are expanded to reveal the mechanisms’ inner workings. In 2020, a Nashville hotel commissioned a large-scale installation of floating musical instruments for its lobby, and the artist is currently in progress on a sculpture using the original guitar that Robby Krieger played on The Doors’ first album.

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