In 2004, a work titled Breach by Roxy Paine was installed on the campus of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln as an addition to the sculpture collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. It is an "asymetrical form with broken branches and limbs that bend back in close proximity to one another . . ., appears scared, perhaps damaged by lightning or high wind. And, in sporting both fungus that indicates a weakened state and healthy branches, Breach can be seen as being about both life and death."

The work is intended to encourage meditation and thoughts about the relationship of human beings to nature and is "simultaneously part of the landscape and antithetical to that landscape...