A community based research project which cumulates in an interactive sculptural installation, "The Tipping Point Machine", sited for the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, April, 2006. The sculpture will be designed and built to travel. Collecting information through the lens of cultural anthropology, health narratives from artists living in the South End neighborhood of Boston become content for building an interactive sculptural installation. The complex relationships between body, health, self, and community will be examined from a combined anthropological and artistic perspective.