Calder's Pivoting Poetry

Among the most telling descriptions of Calder mobiles are those written by Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist philosopher...

"Sculpture suggests movement, painting suggests depth or light. A mobile does not suggest anything: It captures genuine living movements and shapes them."  Sartre goes on to emphasize the mobile's unpredictability as a man-made object, it's action "determined by the time of day, the sun, the temperature or the wind..."