Small toy basketball

This rubbery orange ball, about 4 inches in diameter, has the trademark nubbles and curved lines of a basketball, except for one 1 1/2" round indentation, on which it will rest stably. The indentation has an air valve in the center which whistles a bit when the soft, pliable ball is squeezed, suggesting that this may be a dog toy rather than a child’s toy. On the indentation, the only flat spot on the ball, are written the words “Go Bears!” Below that is an illegible signature. Both were written with a silver paint marker.

The ball rests on a Polaroid of a very young Corin with one arm around a much older man – Corin is grinning into the camera and brandishing the ball and a marker with her other hand. The man is the late Nobel Prize-winning chemist Glenn Seaborg. Seaborg worked closely with Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project.

1 comments:

1. ouroboros, Fri Sep 30 21:02:22 -0500 2005

   This is very refined; nicely crafted.

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