Calder's static sculptures of metal sheet, which he -... calls stabiles, are well known. The following ;.. . .... comment was made on my works when I was .:.. .. : interviewed: 'Several days ago I discovered some...:. thing that does not move and yet is a strange source ^:S . . '.. of motion. It is the immobile stabile. A miracle of light of these modern times, the stabile deserves to be known for the simple reason that whatever is novel today runs the risk of becoming commonplace S tomorrow ....' [1]. I, therefore, wish to describe my kind of stabile because I believe it has novel features. ' 9 I got my idea for making transparent stabiles from reading a passage in one of Proust's novels. He described a certain moment at a card party when the cards on the table could be seen as if they were on the