(Photo Socotra, we think, 1965).

This sculpture is the Unisphere, a monumental stainless-steel globe Installed for the 1964–65 World’s Fair in New York City. We believe the image is from the Chairman’s personal collection, rights owned by him, since the family’s trip to New York City brought back his folk’s time, engaged and wed in Brooklyn as war-shadows realigned themselves after 1945.

We are doing it again, since the multi-decadal realignment after the fall of the USSR in 1990 appears to be coming to some sort of resolution. We had expected there to be some break in our own shadowy conflict by this morning, but things have assumed an eerie calm after an assortment of unlikely ultimatums. Europe has expressed a desire to station troops in what once was a portion of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. Iran is seething. Minnesota has declared war on Washington, DC, and everyone is mobilizing armed forces in all sorts of places.

So, nothing happened yesterday on the national holiday honoring Doctor King. His memory brought back the previous Crazy Decade of the 1960s when murder, foreign and domestic, defined an era. That took us back to the stack of old photo albums in the Conference Room portmanteau and the dusty Beta and CVS cartridge cases strewn on the floor. Which in turn produced the Unisphere and the start of the story about what is going to come next.

The took the Unisphere as our theme for analysis. Look at where Greenland is placed in the upper center! It sits atop the Earth, which is depicted as an open lattice sphere, continents rendered as solid metal plates attached to a framework of longitude and latitude lines. Three large orbital rings encircle the globe at different angles, suggesting the sprouting multitude of satellite paths and the dawn of the Space Age. Water cascades down from beneath the continents into a circular fountain basin below, adding motion and sound to the structure.

Suggesting something is going to happen. Something big.

The Unisphere was designed to symbolize global unity, technological optimism, and humanity’s shared future on a single planet. Its sheer scale—towering over visitors walking beneath it—turns the abstract idea of “the world” into something physically immersive and awe-inducing.

It is likely to be what is coming next. We will have some more on that tomorrow.

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