Gerald de Jong
The code never stopped. The sculptures just joined it.
Convergence — growing and reconnecting
Building, breaking, rebuilding
Building systems, testing them, breaking them and rebuilding. The building blocks of a career in programming. The same building blocks that I still use. Instead of just zeros and ones, I now use steel, cables and tension as well.
I am a software developer at heart before I was an artist. Long before there was sculpture, there was code — systems built to be broken, rebuilt, and understood through the act of making. The instinct never left me. It just found new materials.
Halo — first attempt at a 90-bar tensegrity
The shift
In the early 1990s, I encountered the work of Kenneth Snelson — the inventor of tensegrity, a structure that holds itself together through the pure interplay of tension and compression. No rigid connections. No glue. No welds holding it upright. Just balance.
“How is that even possible?”
I stood in front of one of his sculptures and felt something shift. I got curious. I got ambitious. I knew I had to make something like this. Something massive.
Life intervened
My son was born in 1993, and family rightfully took the foreground. But tensegrity never left my mind. I kept sculpting over the years — a little bit now and then — as my family grew. I kept remembering the feeling of that shift.
Now that my children are grown, I am raising my sculptures so that they can grow and evolve, too.
A build in progress
Fluxe
The name began as Fluidiom — a combination of fluidity and idiom. The idea that a personal creative language is always in motion, always evolving. When the name was taken as a social media handle, I played with alternatives until Fluxe clicked. The meaning carried over: flux, flow, constant change.
My sculptures are never truly finished. Instead they continue to grow as they interact with the world around them — with light shows, with nature, with anyone curious enough to get close.
“I don't think of this as my artwork. I think of it as an invitation.”
Snelson inspired me. I want these structures to inspire someone else — to challenge the ideas we have about what we know and what is new.
That is what Fluxe is. That is what I am growing.
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