After Calder had gone into the extra-large mobiles like the one in the TWA terminal at JFK airport, there was no successor willing and able to carry on with this particular line of sculpture and create those small masterpieces of three-dimensional abstract composition and balance which now are among some of the most sought-after rarities of modern art.

Bashoo, however, started at that point a few years ago. Reiterating the processes that Calder went through, he made hundreds of studies of the metal mobiles and stabiles of the great American master.

Since then, Bashoo has emancipated his own style, building upon Calder’s tradition. Bashoo, who in his “sparetime” is a software-designer -- he's an MIT artificial intelligence graduate -- is very serious about his art. He currently is totally committed to the exploration of colored shapes in space on an experimental basis. He analyzes the process of working the metal into its form in a very thorough way, almost like an alchemist.

Hammering a piece of metal for him is “adding noise, fractalization.” He tries to minimize this “noise” leaving certain aesthetic questions unsolved. Bashoo is also a musician, playing drums with the Black Valley Group and digeredoo and cornet with the Thieves Market Band.