On 16 July 1945 at 5:29 AM, the first nuclear device in history was detonated before an audience consisting of military and scientific members of the Manhattan Project. Leading up to that moment, there was a great deal of uncertainty about the outcome. It has been famously noted that Enrico Fermi was taking side bets as to whether the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, killing everyone on the planet. The blast had a profound effect on those who saw it. J. Robert Oppenheimer often called “the father of the atomic bomb” and his reaction to the detonation serve as the conceptual foundation of “Trinity.”
“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’”
Trinity is the second in a series of Hindu/Christian cross religional works as well as the second in a series on Oppenheimer by Kalyan.
See also: Trinity AP Edition, Duality, Divinity.
Description: Wood, Granite. Portrait of Oppenheimer in a tessellation. Last supper with Christ and the Apostles depicted as Krishna and the rest of the heads in the Universal Form. Poincare metric under Krishna. The Sanskrit says, “At that time Arjuna could see in the universal form of the Lord the unlimited expansions of the universe situated in one place although divided into many, many thousands.”
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(2009-2010)
Photos: Pipo Bonamino