Missile Field
The proliferation of nuclear arms and the disposal process of the radioactive materials is a long term active part of our family’s concerns. I created this artwork when I was an artist-in-residence at the Boston Center for the Arts in the end of the 1980’s. It combines a FIELD with inflatable sculpture (including the emptiness that medium implies) and the deep-seated fear of devastating weaponry The reduction of these weapons has long been an issue and continues to be.
Missiles and fields have always been an obsession of mine. My parents and my grandmother would screen this 16mm film at our house and other venues all the time when I was a child in West Philadelphia.
Jon Goldman’s maternal grandmother, Lucy Lemann, helped produce this landmark film about the atomic bombing.
An inflatable sculpture maquette for So Many Cones So Little Time, commissioned by the Boston Children’s Museum
Riggers, cleaning an inflatable mock-up of a nuclear warhead. Ten of these were made, and they were installed on the roof of the Boston Children’s Museum as “SO MANY CONES SO LITTLE TIME”
So Many Cones So Little Time, a large scale inflatable sculpture on the roof at the Boston Children’s Museum. (video still)