Label Text:
Deceptively simple in composition and technique, Indiana’s combinations of shapes, numbers, and text are riddled with hidden meanings. The hexagon, circle, and square all appear widely in art and in industrial and natural forms from road signs to honeycombs. Similarly, the number six is recurrent in biblical texts, but for Indiana also has personal significance. Six is the number of his father's birth month, the name of the Phillips 66 gasoline company where his father worked, and the number of the road—Route 66—that his father took west to California shortly before Indiana finished high school. Taken together, Eternal Hexagon 6 suggests the connectedness of things both eternal and everyday.

-Jaime Pagana, Curatorial Assistant, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)

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