The Last Salt Talks, (sculpture).

The Last Salt Talks, (sculpture).

Price, Thomas Anthony, 1937- , sculptor.

The Last Salt Talks, (sculpture).

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Aluminum, brass, copper, plastic, rubber, stainless steel and machine parts.

Six pieces. Overall: approx. 11 x 6 x 5 ft.; Diam. 30 ft.

(On plaque on one of the pieces:) A TROPHY FOR THE WINNERS OF THE NEXT NUCLEAR WAR/THE LAST SALT TALKS/FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE NUCLEAR AGE/-THE LABORATORIES OF LOS ALAMOS HAVE SPAWNED THESE/PARTS THAT WERE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION/OF THIS SCULPTURAL WIND CHIME./THE SCULPTURE REPRESENTS A CONFRONTATION/OF TWO MACHINE POWERS AFTER/MANKIND HAS BEEN BLOWN AWAY. AN ANGELIC UMPIRE/WITH FORKED TONGUE OVERSEES THIS CONFRONTATION/A MONITOR RECORDS THE MOMENT ON AN ETERNAL DISK./ALL FIGURES CONFRONT A CENTRAL NUCLEAR MONOLITH./FROM DUST IT CAME TO DUST IT WILL PASS./-ITS SONG--LISTEN/AND SENSE THE HUMOROUS MADNESS/THAT HAS ALLOWED THIS TO BE...GOD BLESS US ALL./T.A. PRICE 1976-81

Six abstract figures, arranged in a circular group, 30 feet in diameter. The figures are: "Major Power" (a mechanical-looking contraption with a menacing protuberance); "One Major Power" (a seated figure); "The Angelic Umpire with Forked Tongue" (a curvilinear piece with an upright post); "Nuclear Oracle Phoenix" (an anthropomorphic figure with a plaque in its mid-section); "Nose Cone Nuclear Monolith" (a missile-shaped piece); and "The Monitor" (a conglomeration of large circular and tubular machine parts).

Outdoor Sculpture -- Arizona

Administered by Biosphere 2 Biosphere Ventures, P. O. Box 689, Oracle, Arizona 85623

Located Biosphere 2, Highway 77, Mile Marker 96.5 Central grounds, near pond, Pinal County, Arizona

Sculpture made from pieces from nuclear testing laboratories of Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona survey, 1992.

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