Scales Of Justice - Reliefs - Metro Court, Albuqurque, New Mexico, USA
N 35° 05.492 W 106° 39.031
13S E 349548 N 3884439
The 'Scales of Justice' sculpture designed by Evelyn Rosenburg. Decorated with 4 stunning tinted relief panels on this sculpture, & 2 on the pans. The scales are located on a plaza of the Bernalillo County Metro Court, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Waymark Code: WMMJAY
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2014
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The 'State of New Mexico Metropolitan Court' - Albuquerque, features a 'Giant Weighing Scales' the balance beam is over 36 feet long. The scales are designed by Evelyn Rosenburg as a water powered kinetic sculpture. As water is transferred by internal pipes to the scale pans, the balance arm moves up or down. However there is a twist to this sculpture, as the lower pan fills with water, it moves UP.
There are several reliefs to be found on this sculpture, The underside of the scale pans, and four plaques on the plinth of the massive scales of justice.
The photos on Evelyn's Web site, are much clearer than mine, also they translate the ancient text. (
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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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