The Permanent Negative Stability Porsche is a project in which I follow my work of the Silent Messenger and permanent NEGATIVE STABILITY series, balancing two objects on top of each other in a way where they are connected only by a small surface.

The mathematical term for the way I approach this is Negative Stability. “Something in negative stability will accelerate its movement after a small disturbance. Here, think a needle balanced on its point, or a pyramid upside down, also on a point. Perfectly stable if nothing touches it in either case, but any disturbance, even a slight breeze, will throw it into full motion.”[1]

I have been fascinated with Porsche since I can remember. Influenced by Austrian conceptual Artist Gottfried Bechtold I realized that I had to use my obsession with Porsche in my work. This way I could learn more about what it is that keeps my mind tied to Porsche and also use my time thinking about these cars productively. Working with the concept of balance, or negative stability, was obvious given my background with the concept.
Here is a small scale sculpture (1:18) of a Porsche Boxster for visual reference:

1:18 model of Porsche Boxster in negative stability

Digital composites of a 1:18 model of a 1973 Porsche 911RS placed in environments:

When a Porsche leaves the factory in Zuffenhausen it is a perfectly balanced machine. It is very hard to argue another manufacturer building cars which are more balanced than a Porsche.

The 1973 911S Targa I am using for this sculpture lost all its balance. It was crashed, rolled, bent, deformed and got parts of it taken out which resulted in re-distribution of weight and complete loss of factory balance. Now I am destroying this balance even more by cutting the car in half along its width right behind the front seats.

The final sculpture is my reinstatement of an extremely well balanced Porsche 911.

1973 Porsche 911S Targa - The permanent Negative Stability Porsche

[1] Charles Fritchie, http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=5406