English: This assemblage sculpture by Steve Brudniak was inspired by August Rodin’s The Gates of Hell. The signature, carved stag beetle phenolic frame and base surround antique iron fireplace frames which confine a sea of brass. Bronze, old world (200-year-old) dolphins swim in Fibonacci currents toward a portal that seems to suppress an enigmatic and perplexingly shifty ultraviolet light source. A panel near the base contains brass snake chain in red oil behind thick glass in a brass framework, conjuring images of metallic worms or viscera and hinting at the possibility that the shiny parasite may infest the entire cavity of the piece. Another panel below this is inlaid with a 4-million- year-old fossil of a disheveled fish. A two-tailed mermaid figurehead tops the piece as guardian over the brass sea and a second siren blows a trumpet, which spews a coiled metal tube that carries electricity to the artwork’s mechanism.