Eliasson works with a fabrication team, but the installation’s mechanics have the disorienting feel of an obsessed tinkerer’s haphazard workshop out in the garage, albeit assembled and delivered with sophistication and panache.

Since Isaac often went with Jefferson when he hunted squirrels and partridge, or visited him in Monticello’s library and workrooms, he saw glimpses of Jefferson as the gentleman farmer and tinkerer.

On the second night, he told more tales, and began linking his personal history to his current creative choices as a tinkerer and a fantasist.

Once when I was little, my grandmother, in her usual logic-defying fashion, answered my request for another cookie by saying that my grandfather had been a tinkerer.

After publicly releasing chatbots last fall, the generative AI industry has had to repeatedly plug security holes exposed by researchers and tinkerers.