Cone kites by Mårten Bondestam
At Long Beach, Washington
february 2005
Miniature model of a
flying
private house and
a kite for
taking people up
for landscape view.
Both sold at
Cervia auction.
The Macho Kite (4) has
male properties
in opposition to most
very female kites.
It is partly made of an
old military heavy tent.
The light shines through the
Woman in Love.
It has been flown in southern Finland,
at the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in
France, Italy, Crete, India, England,
Seattle Fort Worden, Weyfang China,
Ahmedabad and Zainabad India,
in Buenos Aires and in the Andes.
The original one in 2004 and
my summerhouse on an island.
Children building cone kites in Oulu a city far north
in Finland. And flying them.
The Woman in Love
won 3rd prize in
Weifang in 2010.
Flying at Long beach in
Washington USA west coast.
The octopus. In Cervia and in England.
The burka woman dancing at dieppe.
The Indian Woman.
(Not shown.) Made later.
The first cone kite was a long one with a two point briddle.
In a park my wife Kati and I struggled many weekends trying to
make a cone tube fly. It only rolled on the ground and we had
much joy from the crazy "kite".
So one day I tried again with two bridles at the bottom sides like
on a sledge. And suddenly the kite turned up and down and flew.
It flew with the briddle on the top side!
Happy I constructed many long cones and they flew rather well.
When crshing in trees the kite never was stuck but could be
pulled home through the trees. It became a narrow piece of
plastic.
At my summer house I made the white short one. It flew excelently. That was 2004.
In 2013 I shortened the bottom part and got a kite flying with
steeper line. However it looked like a toilet. And I painted the
lid of the toilet as in open position. It is not so stable.
