Narrator: Does this look to you like a piece of abstract sculpture, or like an odd sort of machine? In a way, it's both. The artist, Theodore Roszak, called it Bi-Polar in Red. Basically, the work is made up of two red geometric forms a way. Notice how the upper one is balancing upside down on the lower one. Roszak intended this sculpture and others in the series to express the idea of bipolarity—the perfect balancing of opposites. Roszak once said, "It's the same natural phenomenon as north pole vs. south pole, male vs. female, the bipolarity of magnetic fields in space." But look at the whimsical shapes attached at the top. They don't really do anything, yet—like props in a science-fiction movie—they pretend to be functional. In fact, Roszak was a fan of sci-fi films; he loved the Buck Rogers series.When he created this sculpture in 1940, he was enthusiastic about industrial machinery and its promise of a sleek, streamlined future. He felt that a work of art could embrace technology and evoke the future—just like a real machine.