Mobiles – J. Rubinstein

Woodwork, mobiles, boxes and other things

Spring Fling 2022

Many, many thanks to my kind visitors who took these videos of the “studio” (read garage) for Spring Fling

I’ve made a number of mobiles inspired by Ted Hughes’s wonderful poem “The Thought Fox”. In the poem the fox […]

This is the largest mobile I’ve built. I’m really pleased with the way the Ash and Smoked Oak veneers contrast […]

This isn’t the greatest video but I’m quite pleased with the mobile itself. I’m happy with the way that the […]

Thanks to Ken Smyth for putting on the fan in the Mill at Gatehouse there’s a chance to see some […]

“They’ve made it again, Which means the globe’s still working” This mobile was loosely inspired by the Ted Hughes poem […]

I’ve known this poem for a long time and I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to make […]

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? […]

The inspiration for this piece is a little hard to explain. In my mind there is an echo of Maya […]

This is a far more ambitious version of the fish mobile celebrating Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem than I have made […]