Balance Scales - Bernalillo Courthouse - Albuqurque, New Mexico, USA.
N 35° 05.492 W 106° 39.031
13S E 349548 N 3884439
The 'Scales of Justice' kinetic sculpture designed by Evelyn Rosenburg, in 2002, stands approx 30 feet high, located in the front plaza, of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Waymark Code: WMMJ7Y
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2014
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Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court - Albuquerque. Features Giant Weighing Scales, the balance beam is over 36 feet long. The scales are designed as a water feature. As water is transferred by internal pipes to the pans, the balance arm moves up or down.
The Metro Court is located on the northwest corner of 4th St. and Lomas Blvd. NW in Albuquerque's Courthouse District.
"The sculpture of the scales works backwards. The pans on the scales have water poured into them through internal plumbing. However, the water enters the lowered pan, the one that would already indicate the greater weight of evidence. When the water fills the pan the scales tip the opposite direction than the laws of physics dictate.
Contrary to what appears in these pictures to be happening to the scales, the upper pan should accept water and then move downward. Not as it is now, where the lowered pan accepts water, then rises.
So what does it mean? Is it any indication of how justice actually works in New Mexico? Or is the public supposed to be blind to justice?" Text source: (
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