Coronatoll = Coronavirus + Bikini Atoll nuclear testing
On March 1, 1954, the 15 megaton Castle Bravo nuclear detonation took place on Bikini Atoll, approximately 1,000 times more powerful than either of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Residents were finally cleared to return in 2017.
The languid, benign couple represent the general obliviousness of the public to the hazards of The Cold War Era, and the nefarious harnessing of and general deceit by both the government and scientific community…which might explain some of the contemporary distrust of science and government plaguing us in the current Pandemic.
In the foreground is the current menace: we’re not as focused as much now on external bombs as we are on internal ones—i.e. Covid-19 and its variants, microplastics, antibiotics and other food additives, mercury poisoning from top-of-the-food chain aquatic predators, etc.
An immersive video journey into a difficult-to-photograph highly-reflective resin filled with sparkles and glow-in-the-dark stars artwork:
Materials: antique photograph, historical photo of the Castle Bravo explosion; Coronavirus illustration courtesy of Gerd Altmann; resin; 48 glow-in-the-dark stars, one for each of the 48 states in the United States when the bomb was detonated.
Dimensions: 47cm x 37cm x 2.5cm, 2.5kg