Mar Ricketts's Page

My Role

Artist

My Discipline(s)

Theater, Visual Arts, Crafts, Design

About Me And My Work

With a background in architecture, geometry/morphology, and tension/tensegrity structures, Mar has applied himself to “Architecture of the Air”. He is the founder of GuildWorks an art, performance and design-science based firm producing large-scale installations that transform space using fiber-based architectural structures.

Mar is also known around the world for his kite designs. Zero wind kites which fly indoors, propelled only by the movement of a dancer, his designs push the limits of flight performance and beauty. Mar’s recent work includes advanced kite designs for kite-powered generators.

Mar’s design work and GuildWorks space-transforming Environments can be seen at special events, in museums, galleries, and art centers and as permanent installation, both in the US and internationally.

Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With

inspirational, exciting, breaking new ground, these are some of the adjectives that describe the reason I love collaboration. It can be with artist of many different mediums with many different subjects of goals in mind, collaborators can be dancers, builders, painters, digital artist. The end result is always SYNERGY= the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.

My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists

Buckminster Fuller, Antonio Gaudi, Frei Otto, Wiliam Katavolos, Haresh Lalvani, and numerous others

My Web link

http://www.guildworks.com