The sculpture’s silent sway immediately catches the eye. Its mechanical operation harkens back to a time of early machines and their hypnotic wonder. Its sway and shape are a direct reference to Flip Flap, a mass-produced toy automaton that gained a cult-following from the 90s onwards thanks to the animistic allure of its spontaneous movement. Here, the sculpture playfully blends aesthetics: the forceful lines and raw materiality of the modernist fine art object, the zaniness of Postmodernism, the geometrical accuracy of the digital model. Its composite aesthetics mark a break from the whimsical charm of the toy automaton it references. In a nod to the discursive flavour of our times, it now borrows from the language of the hyperbole. Stretched to a human scale, twisted around itself, sharpened at the tips, its mutated form casts a fleeting doubt onto the assumption of its harmlessness. Should we allow the machine to fascinate us so easily?