The kinetic sculpture can be thought of as a part of an infinite tiling of self ... when the quadrilateral is a parallelogram, like in a scissor lift, or “cyclic”, when the endpoints lie ...

[Marius] chose ash for his parts, a wood with a long history of performing well under difficult conditions. The table is not all wood, of course; metal bushings and pins are used in the scissor ...

Both in their 70s, the masters are the only ones skilled enough to undertake the final delicate part of the process: the assembly of these scissors, or putting together. Cliff Denton: When I were ...