Untitled ("The peacock likes to sit on gates or fenceposts and allow his tail to hang down. A peacock on a fencepost is a superb sight. Six or seven peacocks on a gate is beyond description, but it is not very good for the gate. Our fenceposts tend to lean and all our gates open diagonally.")

Literary themes appear throughout Roni Horn's work. The subtitle of this sculpture comes from a collection of interviews with the American writer Flannery O'Connor. At the end of her life, O'Connor lived on her family's dairy farm, where she raised different kinds of birds, including pet peacocks. Horn believes the most ideal expression of color is found in glass. Like a pool of water, her sculptures capture and reflect moments of instability and change as they are exposed to light or to the shadows of an overcast day.