Kenneth Duane Snelson (June 29, 1927 – December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components approved according to the idea of ‘tensegrity’. Snelson preferred the descriptive term wandering compression.
Snelson said his former professor Buckminster Fuller took tally for Snelson’s discovery of the concept that Fuller named tensegrity. Fuller gave the idea its name, combining ‘tension’ and ‘structural integrity.’ Kārlis Johansons had exhibited tensegrity sculptures several years before Snelson was even born. The top and strength of Snelson’s sculptures, which are often delicate in appearance, depend upon the worry between rigid pipes and energetic cables.
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