The Orgyola© was first displayed at Squeaky Wheel's annual event Love & Sex: The Peepshow on Saturday, February 25th, 2006. An Orgyola© is a combination of kenetic, hand cranked art and video which engages the viewer drawing them down into the action. The white figures are moved through an internal mechanism similar to a music box. As the handle is turned, a series of gears and pins engange and drive sprung levers and sliders to animate the figures. Infrared video cameras behind the tables capture the action and the moving images are displayed on large monitors on the bed between the devices. The cameras also capture the audience and illustrate this interaction between the newly animated and the viewer. Through photography, inanimate objects can be imbued with anthropomorphic qualities in the equal treatment they and the animate receive. The still image raises the dead and brings down the living to occupy the same plane. Film, on the other hand, can simulate motion and therefor life. Humans seem to have an uncontrollable desire to emphasize, and photographically stilled or animated figures provide a subject for our affections. Like Eugene Atget's store front maniquins or Nadar's Catacomb dwelling workmen, my figures act as a doppelganger allowing the viewer to participate in an orgy without the need to remove any clothing. Love & Sex - the Peepshow is Squeaky Wheel's annual love & sex themed art party. The Peepshow was held at the legendary Hotel Lenox. Built in 1898 and home to such figures as Allen Ginsberg and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Lenox is a Buffalo landmark. The hotel's 8th floor was dedicated to installation art from local, national and international artists. Peepshow-themed screenings were held in the banquet rooms. Music and performance artists entertained the masses to create a memorable event.

Opening night at PEEPSHOW :