"The 'Strandbeests' are elaborate, elegant and fragile-looking contraptions, assembled from open skeletons of plastic tubes. The largest one in the exhibition comes in at 10 feet tall and 42 feet long, Smith says, though they average around 7 feet tall and a dozen feet long. Many have spined wings made of plastic sheeting and clear tape that wave in the wind like the wings of an insect testing the air for flight."

Ever since I was first introduced to the work of Theo Jansen years ago, I've been intrigued by the possibilities and wonderment that purely mechanical systems can still provide a world that is becoming increasingly digitized each day. Experiencing the interplay of the Strandbeests' massiveness and complexity with their unhurried movements generated only by the fickle nature of the wind must be almost indescribable in person. I am overall interested in systems that exude similar aesthetics; it's important that people continue to innovate not only by also focusing on the mechanical rather than the purely digital.