Dailey repurposes an ancient Chinese bolt—the projectile fired from a Bronze Age crossbow—thereby transforming a prehistoric weapon into a work of modern art. The juxtaposition of the archeological artifact and the imposing polished Chinese granite circle in which it is encased signals the complex meanings embedded in the sculpture. In this calibrated construction, the viewer is presented with a dramatic illustration of the difference in kinetic energy released between the crossbow and the H-bomb. Thus what we are seeing is the visual manifestation of the evolution in scale of the destructive power of these two weapons as determined by the equation 1 x 10¹⁵. The artist’s carefully calculated dimensions are based on the relationship of 100 to 1,000,000,000,000,000 joules, the measurement of energy generated, respectively, by a crossbow and an H-bomb.