The color streams through the holes, shifting and changing with the angle at which the work is viewed.
The more dispersed composition of "Array," which suggests a weather system, is accomplished with white paper painted on the reverse, creating glowing hints of blue and fluorescent orange that become dominant when the work is viewed from the side.
"When works are always in the same place, people say, 'Oh, I've seen it already.' You have to encourage visitors to come more than once because, with each visit, the work is viewed differently.
That the works were viewed JPEGs and not viewed in person may have favored some people -- the tradition of juried shows and jammed slide projectors has never favored perfect solutions.
In the Soviet era work was viewed as a source of respect, social status and self-realization; today, the majority sees work as a source of material well-being.
His works were translated into Russian language in the Soviet Union, where his work was viewed as embodying scientific socialist themes.
Furthermore, the vast majority of Rockwell's work was viewed in reproduced format and almost none of his contemporaneous audience ever saw his original work.
The team's "creative lead", Ryan Germick, says he doesn't dwell on the idea of his work being viewed by such a mindboggling number of people.
No wonder the latest survey of scientists by the Pew Research Center found scientists increasingly pessimistic about how their work is viewed in the wider society.
Griffin would shortly go on to design Australia's new capital of Canberra, but his Mason City work is viewed as the Prairie School's apotheosis.
