Hydrosonic Pawnoscillator

I have started some work on a very large image that is based on a Rube Goldberg machine.  It’s going to take a while.  But as I have been working on it and looking at the various parts I have been coming up with other ideas for machines…the Hydrosonic Pawnoscillator is the first one. I will probably make a few more as I continue to work on the larger Rube Goldberg machine.  I think the series will be called “Household Machines” or something to that effect.  
 
The work is based on the concept of transparency.  This is a word that has changed in meaning over time.  I believe that at one point we referred to something as transparent if we could see how it actually worked and understand it (possibly with some effort required). However, now transparent means that we can easily see how to make something work…it no longer means we understand how it works.  Consider the average cell phone…it does many things that used to require multiple devices and, in some cases, a lot of knowledge and understanding.  Most people do not understand how their phones work on even the simplest of levels. But we consider it a transparent technology because it is very easy to make it work.
 
Of course, this is part of an overall shift in our lives and technology towards complexity and information overload.  I believe about 1000 years ago St. Thomas Aquinas was able to read every book they had in Europe during his life time.  There were not that many. Now most people probably couldn’t even read all of the books related to one subject (say, art for example…).  Its just not possible to understand everything anymore and so we need to trust that those who do understand things will use their knowledge to make things work easily for us. We then only need to understand what we need to do (drag and drop a file for example).  
 
There are of course dangers to this. Sometimes people don’t listen when they are given good advice by experts because they can’t possibly understand what they experts understand.  They may then fall victim to bad advice that has been made to sound more believable, appealing, and transparent to them.  
 
This work is about that state of blissful ignorance. When our actions and ideas are not constrained by understanding, we can retreat into a world of pure fantasy where a fax machine is nothing but a telephone with a waffle iron attached (Grandpa Simpson).  In that spirit I have invented the Hydrosonic Pawnoscillator.   Its powered by water, cleanser, and vibration similar to a machine I think dentists use to clean their tools.  Its purpose is to clean Pawns since they get so dirty by being touched all the time when people play chess.  Of course, in order to make sure I have a viable business model for producing this machine, this model only cleans pawns. However, adapters and attachments can be purchases in order to use it on other pieces as well.  And in the spirit of planned obsolescence the main cleaning receptacle is made of latex and therefore, absolutely, needs to be replaced from time to time.
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