It began with a styrofoam coffee cup; you could call it the first koostik. I was curious to see if fitting a little megaphone to the bottom of my iPhone would passively amplify the volume of the external speaker. It did, but it wasn't much to look at.
For a year after that first experiment, I made dozens of prototypes in wood in my home workshop. With each new piece I was getting a little closer to the goal of a balance between aesthetics and functionality.
""Visiting Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is like drifting into a bizarre and fascinating dream" - What's on in London
What is it?
Well, it's not a theatre or a cabaret for a start. It's a kind of exhibition or museum (but we don't like those words).
So, what is it?
It's a collection of contemporary automata, which is a kind of mechanical sculpture. Nearly all of the work in the collection is humourous."