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🦋🌈 Introducing the Purple Owl Butterfly Flipbook Machine – A limited edition motor-driven artwork that combines nature's wonders: the butterfly and the owl. 🦉✨ Working frame-by-frame may be time-consuming, but the wait is worth it. Catch a glimpse of the owl-spotted eyes hidden beneath its vibrant purple top wing... it's like having two butterflies in one! 🎨 🎬 #AnimationMagic #FlipbookMachine #PurpleOwlButterfly

Designing, cutting, bending – and my favorite part – welding it all together. Take a look inside the studio to see how it all works, link in bio.
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Let Your Spirit Soar

@Hermes x Flipbook Machine - Interludes Series, Watch Silk Flow. I like the playfulness Hermès, so this collab is a lot of fun. The scarf flutters through space – seemingly indifferent to the world.
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@Hermes x Flipbook Machine, Interludes Series, a super fun collaboration to work on, more to come! 🧡

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A new animation ~ The Ulysses Butterfly. This is an exclusive edition available through @carbonogaleria in São Paulo, Brazil.
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The animation, mechanism and all of the parts are made right here my studio in Queens, NY. You can read more on my website about the history of the flipbook machine, and how they are made. Link is in bio.

Flying in for Valentine’s Day are the Orange Spotted Sun-Moths. Like the demarcations on their wings, these loving species fly in swooping zig-zag patterns, following and chasing each other in a never-ending dance. 🌞 💕

Hello everybody! I’m J. C. Fontanive, I invented the Flipbook Machine in 2004 while studying for a masters degree in animation. I’m a visual artist and this is my studio in Queens, New York. My assistant Alex and I make every machine here by hand -- cutting sheet metal, bending, welding, and animating. I hope you enjoy the posts, let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

ʚїɞ Flipbook Machine assembly in process ~ The Paper Kite Butterfly ʚїɞ

Installing Movement 4 at The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2017. This was a 3 story high machine I installed in the atrium. It had over one hundred timing belts coming off the central motor. Lots of moving parts.
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#mocajax #jcfontanive #movement4 #sculpture #contemporaryart

Installing Movement 4 at The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2017. This was a 3 story high machine I installed in the atrium. It had over one hundred timing belts coming off the central motor. Lots of moving parts.
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#mocajax #jcfontanive #movement4 #sculpture #contemporaryart

Installing Movement 4 at The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2017. This was a 3 story high machine I installed in the atrium. It had over one hundred timing belts coming off the central motor. Lots of moving parts.
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#mocajax #jcfontanive #movement4 #sculpture #contemporaryart

Installing Movement 4 at The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2017. This was a 3 story high machine I installed in the atrium. It had over one hundred timing belts coming off the central motor. Lots of moving parts.
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#mocajax #jcfontanive #movement4 #sculpture #contemporaryart

A bird’s eye view of Flipbook Machine assembly (at 10x speed!)

The Purple-Throated Euphonia is a song bird species found on the grounds of the US Embassy in Paraguay. Commissioned by the Art in Embassies U.S. Department of State program, these paintings and animation are made by the brother and sister J.C. and Sheila Fontanive.