Yedidya (Didi) Vardi does not deem himself an artist, but rather someone who builds things. His large body of work is a one-man enterprise dedicated to commemoration of his son, Ron, who was killed during the Lebanon War in 1984. In his memory, Vardi established the "Ron Vardi Center for Gifted Children," which includes a museum of science where the machines he constructs are exhibited. Vardi invents and builds magical machines made of found objects: bicycle parts, cogwheels, plumbing parts, etc. He creates smart, entirely unusable machines. In the current exhibition he presents a clock made of ten bicycles. Vardi notes the time it takes him to build his machines: 500 hours to build the clock, for example. The number of work hours is highly significant vis-à-vis the unusability and absurdity of his machines, which symbolize man’s ability to focus supreme effort in order to complete simple tasks.
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