Tink Jump Rope  (mixed media, 8″, c1995)

Don’t even remember when I made this… probably sometime in the mid 90s.
There were the other Tinks in series– one mending her broken wing with a sewing machine, one flapping her wings but no filight, one flying up with propeller-like rotating wings… now, some broken, some missing…

Tinker Bell looks unhappy while she is jumping rope, because jumping is substantially different behavior from flying which is her innate nature.

This piece is the only one in hand, today. Though I made three other versions of kineto-mechanical Tink in series besides this one, unfortunately they are most probably broken or missing.