Blue Reincarnation is an automotive, but also interactively controllable kinetic sculpture. The first version of the flattened cylinder construction made up of three pieces was made in 2005, with its unusual tilted divisions only allowing rotations at two degrees of freedom. It was first exhibited in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, initially bearing the name Cognition Schöffer – Opus 261. Visitors enjoyed rotating the sculpture (painted red at that time) using a control terminal, setting it into countless positions in space, and observing its changes during the movements. Since its two terminal positions—one representing a straightened elliptic cylinder and the other a triangle-like
shape reclosing into itself—also suggested infinities that could be
interpreted in many ways, it was almost calling for intervention. To me it meant straightening out proudly versus shutting myself up, or from another perspective expansion versus marking time.
In the case of Blue Reincarnation I did not wish to make it a walk around object, but rather to create an installation, in which the illumination of the moving sculpture with powerful floodlights makes several shadows of the object appear on the surrounding walls.