Gina Siepel

Gina Siepel

  • Projects
    • To Understand a Tree (work in process)
      • Tree and Site
      • Participants and Public Engagement
      • Green Woodworking
    • Cycle of Self-Determination
    • SELF-MADE
    • Re-Surveying Walden
    • The Versatile Queer-All
    • 1 x 1
    • A River Twice
    • The Boy Mechanic Project
    • The Coracles of Pignut Pond
    • The Candidate is Absent
    • CACOPHONY
    • Audubon's Birds
    • Portrait of Audubon
    • After Winslow Homer
    • Emma's Walk
    • King Philip Was a Warrior Bold, Whose Deeds Were Writ in Records Old
    • Historic Site
    • Recursions
  • About
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  • Writing
    • "Gina Siepel: The Artist as Explorer," by Lauren Lessing
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Webfoot Attachments for Swimmers
2007
wood, hinges, fabric, various
The Boy Mechanic, Book 3, page 381. Submitted by J.B. Laplace, NYC, in 1919. This device is designed to enable a user to swim much faster, based on the spring hinge action of the side flaps. In a test at the pool of the local YMCA, the device failed miserably, splitting the oak panel in two on the first kick.

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