University of Illinois Chem-Life complex, 1997, stainless steel and copper. This three-part sculpture rests in a central courtyard among three chemistry buildings dedicated to materials science, physical chemistry and organic chemistry. It incorporates the forms of carbon molecules characteristic to each field.
Breaking
Bonds comprises three shapes. Most prominent is a large "soccer
ball" representing the geometry of a man-made carbon atom, called the
buckminsterfullerene
or
"bucky
ball". Two shapes have broken free and left a rupture in the ball.
One is a single hexagon, reminiscent of a graphite platelet; the other
suggests an organic molecule.
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