Erik Guzman’s artworks consist of a multitude finely cut parts of aluminum, glass and plastics. Each of these material elements converge to create mechanical devices that rotate, point, generate sound, and illuminate without obvious or logical results. A marriage between craft and movement allows for an aesthetic to evolve that is independe nt of the two.

Guzman’s most recent body of work, The Lost Sense, consists of one large kinetic piece and a series of drawings. The Lost Sense captures the overwhelming sense of being bombarded with machines – personal computers, PDAs, iPODS, HDTV, PSP. Designed to enrich and simplify our lives, these machines further remove human sensation away from authentic experience and the real. The scale and impact of The Lost Sense is designed to conjure the disorientation of stumbling upon an alien that has inexplicably fallen to earth. The sculptural component of The Lost Sense rotates a hypnotic wheel of 5000 watts of light, creating a subsonic boom to jar and reawaken the invisible senses that have been dulled by the effect of quasi-utilitarian technology on society.