The 67-year-old Seattle artist was, even by the standards of the local alt-art scene, a an iconoclast and a lone wolf.  While best known for his conceptual works with discarded nuclear materials and his related residency at the Hanford cleanup megasite, Acord was also a sculptor and dimensional designer of the top rank.

That’s not to dismiss his nuclear related projects as mere publicity stunts. He developed his art as a practical philosophical reaction to The Bomb (that instrument of instant, mass death and potential planetary extinction) and radioactivity (that byproduct instrument of slow, deformative death and potential planetary extinction).