Stacy Jacobsen
About

Stacy is a self-taught designer and artist. Born north of the Arctic Circle in 1991, she lived and worked in London and Berlin, among other places, before eventually settling in The Hague. A life shaped by repeated relocation informs her sensitivity to balance, instability, and adaptation.

Stacy describes her works as kinetic statements. She is interested in what can be balanced beyond conventional weights, and how meaning can emerge from load-bearing elements themselves. Structural components — wire, joints, counterweights — are not hidden but brought forward as active, expressive parts of the work.

The act of bending wire is central to her process. The wire is shaped during assembly rather than pre-formed, allowing the structure to respond in real time to weight, resistance, and gravity. This physical, iterative process treats construction itself as an expressive act.

Material choice is inseparable from meaning. She works primarily with reclaimed and repurposed materials that carry traces of previous use — copper wire from old electrical cables, discarded wood, rescue materials, and industrial remnants. Removed from their original function, these materials are reconfigured to form systems that echo natural growth patterns or return processed materials back into representations of organic form.

Her practice is grounded in the belief that material, structure, and meaning are inseparable.


Half Swing (Off-Balance)

Half Swing is a suspended sculpture positioned between a mobile and a static object. It draws from natural growth patterns, where trees and bushes form around a central stem or node, from which branches extend outward. In winter, these branches often hold only individual berries — a reference reflected in the isolated spheres.

The balance of the piece is achieved through deliberate imbalance. Spheres of identical shape but different weight, density, and texture create subtle, irregular movement. The work does not rotate as a whole; instead, motion occurs locally, producing a half-rotation that responds to uneven weight rather than symmetry.

Materials: sponge, cork, wooden spheres, steel wire

Year: 2026
Dimensions: 50 x 80 cm

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Last leaf hanging

Last Leaf Hanging is an irregularly shaped mobile made from Lamello and iron wire. The wire was bent during assembly, allowing for an intuitive, organic composition. The work imitates the last leaves that cling to branches in winter, capturing the delicate balance between presence and absence. Its subtle movement responds to air currents, creating a gentle, suspended rhythm that reflects the fragility of the seasonal moment.

Materials: Lamello, iron wire

Year: 2026
Dimensions: 90 x 50 cm

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THE FALL

The Fall
is a kinetic sculpture inspired by the form of a willow branch and the idea of continuous falling. The work draws from a personal memory of a traumatic fall in the mountains, translated into a form that constantly tends downward without collapsing.

The materials are integral to the piece: reclaimed copper wire from old electrical cables, rescue blankets obtained from mountain rescuers, and recycled cardboard used as a structural base.

Materials: copper wire, rescue blanket, cardboard

Year: 2025
Dimensions: 10 x 110 cm





Re- (production) Part I: Female

















Beech wood dowels are used to imitate a tree’s reproductive organ — birch catkins.

The mobile takes an irregular, organic form. While the underlying principle of balance remains the same, this piece allows for a more expressive and intuitive use of wire.

The structure is shaped during assembly: the wire is bent in the process, and the catkins are added instinctively, placed where they feel visually and spatially right. Rather than following a fixed composition, the form emerges through continuous adjustment — a state of flow.

Materials: Repurposed beech wood dowels, steel wire

Year: 2026
Dimensions: 50 x 120 cm 

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Re- (production) Part II: Male











The brass chain adopts the same structural principle as male birch catkins — a rhythmic chain of repeating elements forming a light, pendulous structure.

Materials: Brass chain, steel wire

Year: 2026
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm


 


Snowberry / Childhood

Snowberry
is a semi-mobile with limited movement, operating mainly in the horizontal plane.
The work imitates the structure of a snowberry bush — clustered and restrained — while remaining a suspended, balanced object.

The piece is inspired by childhood memories and a winter encounter with a snowberry bush. The form and the making method were developed specifically for this work, allowing it to sit between stillness and motion.


Materials: Cotton spheres, steel wire

Year: 2026
Dimensions: 50 x 80 cm


       

One After the Other
One After the Other
is a layered mobile consisting of two connected sections — one larger, one smaller. It is built from spring steel wire and wooden spheres of beech and pine, varying in size. The sections are arranged “one after the other,” creating a rhythmic visual flow.

The mobile moves elegantly, responding to subtle air currents, and its layered composition allows for dynamic interplay between the two parts. Larger and smaller spheres interact, creating gentle, continuous motion that evokes the idea of sequential events, like one battle after another, in a poetic, suspended choreography.

Materials: spring steel wire, beech and pine spheres

Year: 2026
Dimensions: 80 x 50 cm