This sculpture was made about 25 years ago and first shown in the faculty exhibition at Pratt Institute. It started with a name. Hans Blix was the career scientist who led the UN inspections in Iraq after 9/11, when the world was asking whether the country held weapons of mass destruction. At the time his name was in the news every day, and it seemed worth asking whether anyone would still remember it once the news moved on. The piece was a way to fix the name in an object.

Back then almost everyone knew it. Today few people make the connection, yet the sculpture draws the same response it always has.

acrylic

Edition of 6

Dimensions 5 x 36 x 2 in.