Massoud Hassani: Mine-Kafon wind powered deminer

Massoud Hassani grew up in Afghanistan and was inspired to create these works of art as not only a interesting piece, but to have a useful significance.  He grew up playing and creating sphere shaped objects that could be used to race with that were powered by the wind with his friends.  Hassani knew that once one of these balls went into a mine infested location then they were never to be retrieved, so he became inspired to make something that can help find the safest path to take if someone needed to cross mine field.  The material is bamboo and biodegradable plastic that if came across a mine and exploded, some of the material could be retrieved and made into another mechanism, or art work.

               This fascinates me because the significance behind this artwork as a mechanical object used for the greater good. I am inspired by it because the bamboo and biodegradable plastic seem to interact and create a rhythmic sequence throughout it and my project is going to portray this.  Coexistence is my theme and the materials used and the location of this artwork in the picture gives the aurora of coexistence in nature and with itself.