Made from pebbles lovingly nicked from the pathways of Seshu-tei (the site of a a famous zen pebble garden in Yamaguchi Japan) Helix describes a universal shape & motion that every viewer has recognized and found beautiful. It is wound into the fabric of all DNA and repeated in tier upon tier of fractals in Nature. This is one of the more animate kinetic effects ` I have been able to create and in the model of these works as experience machines, one of the most successful.