Chernobyl refers to a city in Russia in which a major nuclear accident took place. Rabascall has depicted the event by presenting the city as an ancient pyramid with four television receivers and a satellite dish on its top and letters covered with sand falling in a disorderly arrangement down the slopes of the pyramid. The latter might signify the initial concealment of the magnitude of this disaster by the Soviet government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph depicts the sculpture in a plexiglas case that was purchased by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.