Tumbleweed
Sculpture
Tumbleweed is an interactive artwork made from electronics. It is a sculpture made from sixteen kilometres of pink wire that resembles a wiry, technological tumbleweed. The tumbling, the process of the making, has made the work what it is.



Created by
Tine Bech Studio
Presented at
Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, UK 2009
Royal British Sculptors Gallery, London, UK 2005
ArtCommunication, Denmark 2003 and 2004
Aarhus Kunstbygning (Centre for Contemporary Art), Denmark 2002
Foyer Gallery, Farnham, UK 2002
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Tumbleweed was shown with an early version of Echidna, a wiry interactive sound sculpture made of coloured wire. When you touch it a sound emerges from the sculpture – like a creature that has its own (electronic) voice.
A tumbleweed tumbles through the prairie and picks up pieces of wherever it’s been. It’s a process – how it’s made makes it what it is, Bech says."Lucy Manning
