Kinetic art. 2008

Ronan has a fascination now with creating characters. I think he’s always done this - populated his own life with a rich secondary cast of imagined people. But when he was younger he could never articulate the conversations he was having in his head. Almost everything he did was kinetic in nature - he had endless curiosity unbound by an executive voice - moved fast - and learned by touching/moving/shaking/breaking.

Ronan was interested in water balloons for a brief period - which are strange objects to begin with. He always had a problem with textures, but these squishy balloons delighted him. He twisted heads into them and I’m sure he was conversing with them on a wavelength I wasn’t tuned into…

… then he’d chortle and race outside and dash them to death on the concrete path. After that he’d examine the stain - the residue of their expiration - with great seriousness - then rush back inside to inflate his next victim.