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Chess Set, 2003

Mssrs. Jeff Richards and Dan Banda of the Padded Cell took Mark Dancey’s drawings and expertly sculpted them in bronze and stainless steel. This set discards the social hierarchy that chess pieces usually represent and imposes a new order based on the human body; in this set the brain is the king, the heart is [...]

Nov 27

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Wheel of Fortune, 2003

Starting with an old bike wheel, a set of magnets, and Dancey’s sketches, the intrepid men of the Padded Cell constructed this fully functional game of mischance. When the wheel spins, the running torso sprints along the edge of the wheel until he catches up with one of the heads painted on the wheel’s surface. [...]

Nov 25