![]() ![]() ![]() After decades building the set pieces for “I Spy” and “Can You See What I See,” Wick is now inventing on a smaller scale. Wick, who moved to Miami Beach in 2014, says this studio size is perfect for tinkering less ambitiously. Walter Wick tinkers with optical illusions in his wooden-blocks-and-mirrors installation “Tricky Triangle.” ![]() You could do this all on a computer and Photoshop all these toys into the image, but where’s the excitement in that? This is like close-up magic.” “That’s why I use nostalgic objects to lure people in. ![]() “It’s tough to be cerebral about science in children’s picture books - dangerous, even - because you can easily be boring,” Wick says during a recent tour of his studio. The idea? To test the center of gravity, Wick says. Billiard balls, rubber ducks, dice, paper clips, a clown figurine, a blue yo-yo suspended on strings, miniature Hot Wheels cars and marbles are balanced on the lone Lego brick, behaving like counterweights on a series of thin, wooden shelves. “Balancing Act” is a science experiment disguised as a Rube Goldberg machine. One of the most breathtaking works in Walter Wick’s studio, a wonderland of toys, gadgets and lighting rigs in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, is his photograph “Balancing Act,” which depicts a dioroma of 188 objects perched atop a single, wobbly Lego brick. ![]()
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