Deconstructed Turkish Ice Cream

This work interprets the playfulness of Turkish ice-cream vendors through the precise control of wire-driven mechanisms. As a person freely reaches out, the machine escapes through control, and the distance between them continuously changes. At the moment contact is finally allowed, the meaning of the action is inverted. Between the two axes—“control and freedom,” and “distance and contact”—human desire and emotion arise. It is an attempt to expose, through technology, the psychological and physical dynamics hidden within the simple act of touching.

The wire-driven XY table lets the artwork slip away in response to the visitor’s movement. When one reaches out a hand, the system retreats smoothly under precise motion control, varying its distance to invite further engagement. The feeling of almost being able to touch—yet not quite—is born from a subtle mismatch between the system’s response and human perception. At the moment contact is finally allowed, the control eases, and the value of touch becomes distinct. Through the act of “touching,” the work experientially reveals the interplay of desire and reaction that emerges between humans and machines.