If you push your hand or face into it, it makes a mold of that shape. This work functions a bit like that, but programmed into it is a particular shape or state. The level of simplicity in the mechanical solution relative to the complexity that it can contain is very exciting to me, and it is one of the driving forces behind all of these works. The shape has references to elasticity and tension often represented in computerized forms. Plans are afoot for a larger, multiple state machine with several more layers of complexity. Interestingly, to the engineers, while there is no apparent circle in the mechanism, the lever is describing a small arc when you move it.