Photographic Moment

Sky Horizon

Samarendra Singh, a visiting postdoctoral fellow in NIDDK’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, took this photo on an eerily overcast day in April. When he gets a break from researching how recombination activation genes mediate V(D)J recombination, Singh enjoys snapping pictures with his high-end Canon digital single-lens reflex camera, model 5D. The sculpture can be found below the Clinical Center on West Drive. It was selected to mark NIH’s 1987 centennial anniversary. The sculpture “stands as a reminder of the accomplishments of NIH to the health of mankind and a salute to those who made those accomplishments possible.” Constructed in 1986 by Louise Nevelson, 20th-century New York artist known for her abstract sculptures, Sky Horizon stands 30 feet tall and is made of the nonreflective material COR-TEN steel. The piece was dedicated to NIH in 1988 by the family of Edwin C. Whitehead, founder of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Technicon Corporation.