The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 1, 2026

A square-oriented salt print in muted brown depicts a circular geometric pattern. Hundreds of thin cream lines radiate from a dark central circle, intersecting concentric rings to form dense layers of diamonds and triangles. The intricate design resembles a kaleidoscope, its forms enlarging toward the outer edge to end in a jagged sawtooth perimeter. The symmetrical composition occupies the center of the solid, neutral-toned background.

Circus

c. 2019

Anderson & Low

America
salt print
The Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson 2007 Trust 2024.45.11
© Anderson & Low
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

These 21st century images were inspired by photographs taken through a microscope by nineteenth-century British photographer Frederick Evans.

Description

Evans’s fascination with form and visionary translation of common natural objects resonated with Anderson & Low. They decided to rework images from their Chrysalis series, in which they used digital technology to transform earlier analog architectural views into large-scale, exuberantly patterned, and colored abstract images. In contrast, the Metamorphoses are delicate monochromatic images—intimately scaled salt prints, a complex printing process devised in the mid-1830s.
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