I Love You Machine
Yale Art & Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
April 1999
Epoxy resin, brass, acrylic, lights, mechanical components
20 ft x 20 ft x 4 ft
I Love You Machine connects a pair of internally illuminated epoxy resin castings connected together by an analog machine that uses a pair of rotating machined brass discs to cause the castings to flash “I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U” in Morse code back and forth to each other in an ongoing loop. The machine was designed to emulate early computing devices such as Pascal’s Calculator; one of the first modern attempts to use a machine for cognitive rather than manual labor.