"My work is very much nearer to nature and has life like a tree or plant. My pieces respond to atmosphere like natural vegetation ... They grow under the sun, breathe open air, swing like trees and vibrate like leaves."

This kinetic sculpture was produced by Dhanjal whilst he was living and working in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 1970s. These aluminium sculptures, created with a distinct ‘technological’ aesthetic, move with minimal atmospheric intervention and build on sculptures produced in Chandigarh in the late 1960s, developed further in Kenya, and followed by his large-scale public sculptures sited in Britain and elsewhere.

“Most kinetic sculptures... are fitted with computerised mechanical gadgets. The unnatural artificial movement has no pace with the human temperament. One is inhuman and repeated… [the other is] natural and has endless variety.”