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Nuclear Nightmare
Nuclear Nightmare
Nuclear Nightmare

Nuclear Nightmare

Artist William Whipple
MediumFireboard, acrylic, lightbulbs
Dimensions14 x 36 x 11 in. (35.6 x 91.4 x 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
The nuclear weapons build-up of the 1980's brought back memories of an earlier, cold war era.  My father, a general contractor, built a number of basement bomb shelters, and I occasionally would have a vivid bomb dream, featuring a blinding flash and a cataclysmic red sky.  These visions made the strange, little cinderblock rooms seem vastly inadequate. –Artist statement
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