Aycock’s fantastical and complex Three-Fold Manifestation II arrived at Storm King in advance of a retrospective exhibition of her work. Its form recalls Roman amphitheaters, one stacked atop the other, and alludes to sources including archaeology, science, and astrology. Aycock has noted that her initial inspiration originated in unexecuted designs for three theaters by Walter Gropius, founder of the influential design school known as the Bauhaus. As Aycock has stated of the work, “I was working a lot with these stepped bowl-like forms; I would take astronomical diagrams and imagine the space that would be generated by these diagrams. These bowls or whirling, skewered spaces are tipped, so it’s as though you’re looking into disoriented worlds. . . . During the Medieval period and the Renaissance they illustrated people walking off to paradise through a whirling hole in the world, a tumbling structure.”