{"id":9851,"date":"2019-01-07T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2019-01-07T19:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:56:21","slug":"david-a-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/01\/07\/david-a-lang\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering David A. Lang And His Kinetic Dream Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m particularly interested in the unexpected, unanticipated, unlikely events that can often take place in our lives,\u201d artist David A. Lang once said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/50b0eb39e4b054abacd48443\/t\/5c0e78cb40ec9a6c3b0d345c\/1544452320260\/Lang+Press+Release+FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDavid A. Lang: Flights of Fancy,\u201d<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonsculptors.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Sculptors Gallery<\/a> from Dec. 12 to Jan. 27, 2019, recalls the Wayland sculptor who died two years ago at age 76. (Katherine French, director of Vermont\u2019s Catamount Arts and curator of &#8220;Flights of Fancy,\u201d and Jessica Straus, who is also exhibiting at the gallery, are scheduled to give a free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/661572830910738\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talk about the exhibitions<\/a> at 2 p.m. Jan. 12.) Over the years he painted watercolors and photographed, but he was best known in his last years for the kinetic sculptures featured here\u2014delicate wire carts topped with animated paper wings that he said came from \u201cthe realm of the unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1f0ZZ5wXIts\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1etsJfnPseI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 video by Paul Falcone<\/a>, Lang said he dreamed up the wings while working on a wire cart that originally had little paper rockets moving back and forth on top. Instead, he began to develop a contraption that created a wiggling line of motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was fascinated by a movement like this, almost wormlike or snakelike or fishlike. Then I found if that you turn it over, and it goes backwards, it becomes a wing movement,\u201d Lang said. \u201cI was captivated by these rhythms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/mitmuseum.mit.edu\/exhibition\/gestural-engineering-sculpture-arthur-ganson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur Ganson<\/a>\u2019s kinetic sculptures at Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum, some of Lang\u2019s sculptures seem like jokes about life. \u201cThe Swine Flew\u201d (2010)\u2014&#8221;I built it for my daughter when she was sick\u201d\u2014features little plastic flying pigs atop a wire cart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVuNDJoAXy0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other Lang sculptures are puns and meditations on political and social issues. \u201cFirst Strike\u201d (2007) is a cart topped by tiny American flags and matches that rock back and forth above a sandpaper-like surface threatening to catch fire. Lang said \u201cWrapture\u201d (2010)\u2014a straightjacket topped with flapping wings where a head should be\u2014was inspired by \u201cThe concept of rapture \u2026 about where people leave this life and they achieve perfection with a greater being. The whole notion to me seemed to be encapsulated by people being wrapped in, imprisoned by their own belief systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/x351385966\/Kinetic-artist-David-Langs-work-is-always-moving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Bergeron wrote<\/a> in the Metro West Daily News in 2011, Lang \u201cfashions machines that act like philosophers.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/wonderlandlandfanclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don&#8217;t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKkQJqaiZIw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>To See Things Quite Differently<\/h3>\n<p>David A. Lang was born in Manhattan on July 12, 1941. His father, Harold M. Lang, was an engineer. So he grew up on Long Island \u201cin household that was just filled with machines and parts and pieces,\u201d Lang recalled in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Lang moved to Boston in 1964, finding work as a medical illustrator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as part of a three-year post-graduate program. The next year, he became a scientific illustrator for Harvard University\u2019s chemistry department. He went on to teach art at the Middlesex School in Concord from 1972 to 2003. Each year during his last decade there, Lang said he taught students engineering by working with them to rebuilt old British sports cars\u2014MGs, Austin-Healeys. He was also a licensed flight instructor for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>During these years, Lang painted watercolors and crafted sculptures and took photographs, exhibiting at Lincoln\u2019s deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Framingham\u2019s Danforth Art Museum, where he was a founding member, and Boston Sculptors Gallery, where he became a member in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>His plan for his retirement was to spend a lot of time making art in a cottage he bought in rural Ireland. But a stroke in 2004, hurt his abilities to move and think. \u00a0(He had a second stroke in 2016.) The experience, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrowestdailynews.com\/x876591252\/Kinetic-sculptures-at-Dana-Hall-in-Wellesley-will-move-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Bergeron<\/a> in 2009, caused him \u201cto see things quite differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iO3cgWCylPE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To restore his faculties, Lang returned to sculpting. \u201cThis all began after the stroke. I found it difficult to draw and paint for several years, but was able to conceive of and build mechanical sculpture,\u201d Lang told the South End Patch on the occasion of his exhibition \u201cOK, Now What?\u201d at Boston Sculptors Gallery in 2011. \u201cMuch of the work is narrative and explores the unlikelihood of day to day events and celebrates the unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his Natick studio, Lang engineered dreamlike contraptions of welding wire. Many of them were wheeled carts with wings or other things on top animated by motor drives, cranks, cams, worm gears, stepper motors, pulleys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wheels to me represent a passage of time or passage through time or somehow having gotten from one place to another place, either forwards or backwards, or maybe just standing in time without moving,\u201d Lang said in Paul Falcone\u2019s 2014 video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs is often the case with pieces that I\u2019m working on, I don\u2019t find out what they\u2019re about until they\u2019re all done,\u201d Lang often said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9922\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0290w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9922\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0290w-941x1024.jpg\" alt=\"David A. Lang's 2007 sculpture &quot;Daedalus, On The Other Hand.&quot; (Greg Cook)\" width=\"900\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0290w-941x1024.jpg 941w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0290w-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0290w-768x836.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0290w-370x403.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0290w.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David A. Lang&#8217;s 2007 sculpture &#8220;Daedalus, On The Other Hand.&#8221; (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many sculptures evoked the ravages of war or other physical and mental limitations. Wings slowly flapping above bedpans in &#8220;Fleet,\u201d and above Korean war era army boots in \u201cOdysseus, The Return from Troy\u201d (2010), and above a delicate wire wheelchair in \u201cDaedalus, On the Other Hand\u201d (2007) seem to speak about desires to transcend the demands of tired bodies. They only go into motion when activated by light sensors and motion detectors, giving them a haunted aspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t sketch them out before I build them,\u201d Lang told Bergeron in 2009. \u201cI make them in my head and go from there by guess and by golly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/153849835\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStraight Eight\u201d (2007)\u2014a wire cart topped by a row of scissors trying to cut strips of dangling paper\u2014was inspired by a dozen children\u2019s school scissors that he found. \u201cI knew they were going to open and close, but I didn\u2019t know how,\u201d he told Falcone. He animated them, but felt like the sculpture needed something more. So he added strips of paper moving up and down above the blades, \u201cjust barely escaping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole issue was this notion of just barely escaping,\u201d Lang told Falcone. \u201cI think that no matter how many times you watch a movie or a play, let\u2019s say if you\u2019re watching \u2018Romeo and Juliet,\u2019 it\u2019s going to end the same way no matter how many times you watch it. Your viewing it will not change the outcome of it. \u2026. There\u2019s such personal involvement when people look at this, they\u2019re rooting for the scissors or they\u2019re rooting for the paper, and it just escapes at the last sixteenth of an inch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157476048\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Freak Accident<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cSculptor killed in freak accident recalled as a generous mentor,\u201d read the shocking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2017\/11\/10\/sculptor-killed-in-freak-accident-recalled-as-a-generous-mentor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Herald<\/a> headline.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, Lang was driving his minivan north along Wellesley Street in Weston shortly before 5:30 p.m. when a car heading the opposite way crashed into a deer, throwing the animal into his windshield, according to reports in the Boston Herald and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2017\/11\/09\/man-his-dies-after-deer-hits-windshield\/7B3Y1Yzpk0DA5zXWP1KVIJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Globe<\/a>. His minivan flipped over. Lang was taken to Wellesley Hospital, where he died. In lieu of flowers, his family suggested that memorial gifts be sent to Brockton\u2019s Fuller Craft Museum (where his sculpture \u201cThe Question Is The Answer\u201d now greets visitors).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9937\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picLangTheQuestionIsTheAnswerFullerCraft180923w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9937\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picLangTheQuestionIsTheAnswerFullerCraft180923w-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"David A. Lang's sculpture \u201cThe Question Is the Answer,\u201d which was prominently featured outside the Danforth Museum for years, was acquired by Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum in 2017, where it now greets visitors. (Courtesy Fuller Craft Museum)\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picLangTheQuestionIsTheAnswerFullerCraft180923w-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picLangTheQuestionIsTheAnswerFullerCraft180923w-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picLangTheQuestionIsTheAnswerFullerCraft180923w-370x493.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picLangTheQuestionIsTheAnswerFullerCraft180923w.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David A. Lang&#8217;s sculpture \u201cThe Question Is the Answer,\u201d which was prominently featured outside the Danforth Museum for years, was acquired by Brockton&#8217;s Fuller Craft Museum in 2017, where it now greets visitors. (Courtesy Fuller Craft Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lang had been aiming to have a show at Boston Sculptors Gallery the following spring. His last exhibition there, in May 2016, featured a single work, <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/50b0eb39e4b054abacd48443\/t\/5720cd0f62cd94c301e1b0a1\/1461767439762\/Lang+Press+Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cJourney\u2026\u201d<\/a> It was a 13-foot-long wire carriage suspended in the middle of a darkened room.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny wooden man pedaling in the middle of the contraption seemed to be driving the wagon\u2019s four wheels as well as three wings slowly flapping above. Projected onto the bottom of the white paper feathers were images of sky, flowing water, birds, galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>Lang said the piece had gelled after a friend recommended an addition to the little man. \u201cI put driving goggles on him,\u201d Lang said, \u201cand the way it affected the piece was he developed a focus, and an intensity, a passion, a forward look about hopes and dreams and possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/wonderlandlandfanclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don&#8217;t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9924\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0299w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9924\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0299w-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"David A. Lang's 2010 sculpture &quot;The Day the Castinetti Sisters Learned to Fly.&quot; (Greg Cook)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0299w-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0299w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0299w-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0299w-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0299w.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David A. Lang&#8217;s 2010 sculpture &#8220;The Day the Castinetti Sisters Learned to Fly.&#8221; (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9923\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0296w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9923\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0296w-1024x796.jpg\" alt=\"David A. Lang's 2007 sculpture &quot;Straight Eight.&quot; (Greg Cook)\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0296w-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0296w-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0296w-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0296w-370x287.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0296w.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David A. Lang&#8217;s 2007 sculpture &#8220;Straight Eight.&#8221; (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9925\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0304w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9925\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0304w-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"David A. Lang's 2007 sculpture &quot;White Wings&quot; (center) and other pieces in &quot;Flights of Fancy&quot; at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Jan. 4, 2019. (Greg Cook)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0304w-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0304w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0304w-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0304w-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDavidALangBostonSculptors190104_0304w.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David A. Lang&#8217;s 2007 sculpture &#8220;White Wings&#8221; (center) and other pieces in &#8220;Flights of Fancy&#8221; at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Jan. 4, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1yeMBkzAR8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gb_fhEoRiJU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYZpLgXU4is\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JSu206v5Pkg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m particularly interested in the unexpected, unanticipated, unlikely events that can often take place in our lives,\u201d artist David A. Lang once said. \u201cDavid A. 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