Oct 19, 2016
Writing about the piece in his autobiography Epstein said: “I made and mounted a machine-like robot, visored, menacing, and carrying within itself its progeny, protectively ensconced. Here is the armed, sinister figure of today and tomorrow. No humanity, only the terrible Frankenstein’s monster we have made ourselves into…”
Somehow grimly prescient of the maelstrom of World War, and the Holocaust to come, I have seen this remarkable piece on exhibit and it is fascinating, and somehow chastening in emblifying humanity at its primal core, really much like ants on hills, networked and mindless.
Source: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/story-jacob-epsteins-rock-drill
