Ernest Trova 1974 Museum of Modern Art Falling Man "Trovascope" Kaleidoscope packagine It's a pretty good pin

It's a pretty good pin cushion too

Really really great

VA was constructed just after the beginning of the Civil War

who also points to one in the Gettysburg Museum collection

To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball

Ernest Trova 1974 Museum of Modern Art Falling Man "Trovascope" Kaleidoscope packagine It's a pretty good pinI'd never seen one of these "Trovascopes" designed by artist Ernest Trova (1927 2009) for the Museum of Modern Art in 1974 and think it's way cool; more artists should design kaleidoscopes, I'd say! Trova, though, was especially well suited to creating a very graphically satisfying one, with his "falling man" silhouettes lending themselves to all sorts of interesting kaleidoscopic permutations! With an array of other smaller shapes in primary colors,