When the Federation rejected Rothko's proposal, he went his own way. Some people respond, and they think, oh, how could he do the same thing every day, but, of course, if you look at it from his point of view, it's never the same. Rothko considered his work spiritual and wanted viewers to be spiritually moved by it. And at the Rothko show some were. White silent ghosts, withered and yellow, glide by.
Light shines on the other side and is projected into the dark room.
Space hanging in space. The water separated from the waters. Lynn Metheny had a somewhat different way of putting it. It makes you feel very small in the face of these color fields sort of encompassing you. He spoke about wanting people to be in the paintings.