Conversation with Contemporary Artist- Arthur Ganson

I was reflecting back on my first semester at ASU and remembered that I had a presentation to prepare for my 3D class.  I was given kinetic art to research.  When I saw the list of artists, I was curious to see which ones were still alive and working today.  I came across Arthur Ganson.  I thought it might be interesting to write to him and see if he would be willing to converse on his art/sculpture.  He was and is quite gracious.  He wrote and was willing to respond to a laundry list of questions I had prepared for him.

One of my questions: (partial question)

Secondly, could your response be on a more personal level as to what draws you to kinetics?
Ganson's Response:

What I do turns out to be a beautiful assimilation of most of my innate aptitudes and interests.  When I studied sculpture it was all very traditional.  It wasn't until I somewhat randomly put a little mechanism together in my second year of college did I find that all of my interests could be incorporated.  The first was careful working with my hands;  I was drawn to use delicate wire and for the building to be a challenge.  One of my early dreams was to be a surgeon.  Here I was creating a world in which I could do my surgery in.  The second was logical programming; In high school I spent most of my senior year programming computers.  I loved that world but it was dry.  The making of the machines naturally became an outlet for the programming side of me.  The third was the emotionally expressive aspect.  I wanted to express the inner fragility that I felt inside.  Making delicate machines was a way to do that in a poetic way.

Also, I was always interested in thing in the process of becoming and less interested in the object itself.  How the material moves is often the most important thing.

This is a link to one of his creations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLHIf-VAgDs