About the Maker: Douglas Ruuska's mansion is large and contains multitudes, among them the training that came from being a currently recovering Physicist & Photographer. Everything to be created before one is a puzzle to be solved and looking at that puzzle from the many facets that a reasonably long-life and curious mind affords is one of life’s great joys.

My 3-dimensional works have melded my passion for science and physical laws to my penchant for creativity and expression resulting in kinetic art that mesmerizes and informs viewers about their place in the Universe. I play with size to bring things to a more humanscale, for example, a 7 foot diameter, rotating Galaxy with more than 5,000 individual stars for the viewer to observe and contemplate their place in the greater realm of the Universe. Or, a 20-foot wide flapping wing Manta Ray flying across the ocean of air above your head

Some of my work deals with wish fulfillment, such as ‘Let’s Go Fly a Bike,’ which allows a participant to interact with a kinetic sculpture that picks them up 17 feet in the air and spins them around a 43 foot diameter circle. Thus fulfilling a basic desire to fly, by riding your bicycle right on up and out of the scenery and into the vast blue reaches of the big sky overhead.

Always looking for interesting problems to solve. I provide a wide-range of skills, from consulting services to final design and fabrication: douglasruuska.com