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Here Cunningham gave visual form to this theoretical shape by screenprinting two-dimensional renderings of intersecting cubes onto two translucent plastic panels that are to be installed in a corner at a ninety-degree angle. As the viewer moves in front of the piece, the form resolves into a tesseract. 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