Twin Towers of Babel II

This print references the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and includes connotations of both the history of human artistic achievement and emptiness. The left tower includes a Roman aqueduct and masks, Renaissance architecture, depictions of human embryos taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, and a pyramid seen from above. The right tower consists of bricks and panes of glass that reflect patterns evoking a cloudy or smoke-filled sky, interrupted by a wheel. Oberlin alumnus Henry Klein, who commissioned the print, is a leading publisher of small-format graphic works by central and Eastern European printmakers.