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Patrick Nagatani

(Chicago, Illinois, 1945 - October 27, 2017)

“Transformers,” Aerojet General Nucleonics Reactor

From the series "Nuclear Enchantment"

1990

Ilfocolor print

20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61.0 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of George Stephanopoulos

2008.145

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This nuclear reactor at the University of New Mexico is used for teaching. Nagatani surrounds it with Transformers. (Toys based on characters from Marvel Comics, these alien robots can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery.) The robots appear to be starting an uprising. All the humans have fled. Mousetraps are commonly used in physics classes to demonstrate a nuclear chain reaction.

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Nuclear
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United States