While their presentation has a potential audience of millions, and is free to anyone with Internet access, a different way of bringing together technology and art has been created by Israeli artist David Morris, whose sculpture gallery is located on the working floor of the electrolytic paint factory on Kibbutz Ein Hashofet. Mr. Morris's exhibit consists of 18 pieces of ceramic sculpture that line the wall facing the machinery on the factory floor. And, in fact, the room in which the statues stand is spotless. Unlike a standard art gallery, the factory working floor is a place people enter on a daily basis. Each is about the size of a table lamp.
Several statues are bionic rather than organic, with machine-like appendages in geometrical forms.
With limbs jutting out at odd angles, many of these whimsical creatures seem to be dancing. Their facial and sexual features are minimally but clearly represented. The artist's use of recognizable features to create fantasy beings provokes a lively commentary on the human condition. Made of wood-fired terra cotta, the statues exude warmth and have become a part of the factory workers' daily lives. Easily accessible and placed in convenient settings, they weave beauty into the mundane and make fine art available to great numbers of people at no cost.