In 1996 he created Panama, Spitsbergen, Nova Zemblaya, a steel U-boat on casters. Other pieces include aerodynamic cars, models of flying saucers, and machines that seem to skim the surface of the sea. I think of Drew Leder's book The Absent Body, where he shows how, for most of our conscious life, we ignore our own physicality.
Technology lives easily with, and even in, the meditative quality of a world on the move.
And there are plasticine windows in the soft helmet, evoking Beuys' use of felt as an inert, abject material. The four engines have propellers at right angles to each other. On the front, gas cans with broken tubing. It rests in the shadow of the Aeromodeller. Each of the RVM's transparent wings is tipped with heavy, black rubber feathers, which look as if they might oar the air.