Laurent Davidson, an American artist living in Carmel, California, first experimented with "mobiles" at the age of thirteen when he was living in Sache, France.  His next-door neighbor was Alexander "Sandy" Calder, the world renowned artist who invented and popularized mobiles as an art form.

Combining elemental shapes with rhythms and colors and suspending them in the air, mobiles can be considered to be part of the family of wind instruments.  Assimilating mobiles to scales or musical phrases, Laurent aspires to explore the relationship between the plastic arts and music.  Mobiles floating in space in time ca be interpreted as "harmonic progressions," and their movement as "variations."

Working with aluminum and steel, Laurent creates solid-based mobiles for interior spaces, as well as for tables and desktops, and suspended models to evolve in any size of interior space.  Outdoor mobiles can be created to order.  Each mobile is painted with Japan colors, an oil base paint that dries to a flat finish so that the colors are visible for all angles.

The grandson of international portrait sculptor Jo Davidson, Laurent attended Beaux Arts school in France prior to working in lithography printing and art restoration.  He first moved to Carmel in 1977 as the recipient of an artist-in-residence fellowship.  In 1987, he returned to California where he has been working on paintings, music and mobiles.

Laurent has displayed his paintings in galleries in Northern California, at the International Art Fair in Paris, and at his family's gallery in Tours, France.