What A Strange Looking Contraption,

it is a strandbeest,

earlier this summer artist Theo Jansen revealed UMINAMI, a new addition to his series of wind-powered strandbeests, the kinetic sculpture is much thinner than previous iterations, and is made without hinging joints so it does not need to be lubricated when roving along the sandy shore,

the fabricated creature seems to imitate the motion of a crawling caterpillar, producing an undulating movement as it sweeps across the beach, if you found this strandbeest as mesmerizing as I did You can watch other strandbeests in motion on Youtube, it almost seems magical the way they travel across the sand with nothing to power them except the wind.