RUBEN BEDROYAN. Hollywood

Russian sculptor and musician, Ruben Bedroyan. His obsession at the time was "kinetic" sculpture, spheres and spirals, metal hoops, rotating and ringing, clustered with magnets, fragile, vibrating and moving with every breath or motion. Was he inspired by living in a place that knows frequent earth tremors? Or was he expressing how tentative and fragile modern life is, and the beauty in the fragility of it all?

I met Ruben one night a few blocks from the Villa Carlotta. He was sitting beneath a tree with low-hanging branches bowing Bach on his scarred double bass. I was with another musician and we both stopped and listened in awe to his masterful playing. We became friends. Before my departure from Los Angeles, he gave me one of his earliest pieces, "Key of G." (image below)



Ruben at work on the kinetic sculpture, "Key of G." (click on image to enlarge)

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