In her own words...
This was the second in a series of prismatic works that I made in the fifties with the same concern for enigma which I had always pursued. Revealment was something for the viewer’s participation. I wanted to make a picture that you didn’t see all at once. All of my pictures of this period I felt you should discover slowly and that they would almost be kalaidescopes that would shimmer and that you would discover something new every time you looked at it.
—from unpublished notes, 1989
