LAMENTATIONS: DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR

“We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle,
each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”
— Robert Oppenheimer

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Granite, Black Powder Coated Aluminum, and Human Skulls
50 x 31 x 14 in | 127 x 78.7 x 35.6 cm
2016

With its title engraved in the granite pedestal, Brian Dailey’s sculpture The Delicate Balance of Terror brings dramatic visualization to the phrases and ideas on which it plays.