The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture.

As water falls over the giant wheel, a transmission assembly causes two disks to spin in opposite directions. On the interior disk are a series of animation frames painted onto glass; on the black outside disk, rotating in the opposite direction, are cut slits.  As the wheel spins, the slits act as a shutter and the animation becomes visible…a movie plays in the falling water. 

Fabrication and Additional Engineering:
Joe Potgeter, Joe's Barn
Mechanical Engineering:
Wee Choon Kiat