Taken With the Wind

Visionary, self-taught folk artist Vollis Simpson has stopped work due to advanced age, and his collection of intensely detailed whirligigs (aka kinetic, wind-driven constructions) are going to be sold and redistributed.

http://www.reflector.com/mixer/artists-famous-whirligigs-be-moved-new-home-42093


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38311137/ns/travel-destination_travel/


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/arts/design/06vollis.html

"The main part of doing anything that turns 

is to get it centered." 

– Vollis Simpson, whirlgig artist