Nicolás Lyford-Pike

Machine, 2023

Colored pencil and ink on paper

35 ½” x 25 ¾”

$455

Audio Version of Image Description:

A winding race track that trails up the page with simple machines along the way. Starting at the bottom is a blue and yellow launcher sending out a small green “Tantrum” race car. It is heading toward a black and orange triangular gear called a “Quick-Back Motion”. After that the black track ends and the orange track begins up a hill over a circular wheel labeled the “Belt”. A small black gear is lined up overtop of an orange gear with a toothed track underneath called the “Spur Gear”. Another hill goes up overtop of a circular spoke gear called “Belt Drive”. It turns back and up from the edge of the page in a white “curve”. Then more orange track bumps over a grey triangle called “Lever”, to a steep incline trailing over a grey “Pulley”. It returns straight down before sloping further down toward two square shaped “Angular Gears”. Another white curve doubles back from the left edge, then more orange track climbs upward over a wheel called a “Roller”, over a shorter hill crossing a rectangular “Plane”. The last white curve turns back to the orange track at the very top, which travels under the blades of an orange “Fan”. It travels under two spoked circles called “Double Belts”. Then under a three-armed propeller with a dip in the track, its labelled “Power Escapement”. The last obstacle is two ovular gears, black on top, orange perpendicular on the bottom, labeled “Elliptical Gear”. Finally, a small white piece of straight track leads to the open mouth of a green “Crocodile Crunch”.