“…As she perfected her sculpting techniques, she began experimenting with movement, using bicycle wheels and metal disks. Two donated radio dishes became a bat in flight. More found metal parts became owls that sway in the wind, their eyes glowing with solar lights.
Her biggest project to date is a massive peacock built atop her large workshop and made of more than two dozen bicycle wheels and dozens more colorful disks. The peacock was a prototype for one she designed and built at the Orinda Plaza as part of the city’s Art in Public Places program.
“I’ve always liked bicycle wheels,” Vader says, ” and I wanted to use them somehow. I just had to figure out to make them spin in the wind. I guess it’s a Dutch thing.””


Joan Morris
Art in motion; Wind artist lives in a museum of her own design
Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, Saturday, June 26, 2010