Some of the themes Clovis conveys in his work are the human curiosity of the unknown emphasizing exploration into the sky we have all looked up into, and the hesitation of some to venture to new worlds, including physical, emotional and spiritual. Clovis' influences for these ideas come from his relationships with and his deep love for his friends, family and his heavenly father. Clovis is very excited to be included in this team on a journey to explore the new horizons of artistic experience whileemploying scientific research methods. This drawing was created for the purpose of studying perceptual changes, experienced by the artist, as prompted by a vertical inversion process. Millard Reschke, one of NASA's scientist in the Microgravity Vestibular Investigations laboratory, suggested this experiment to Frank.
Verticality is determined by a gravity vector running down the center of the body.
This vector and its relationship to the body shifts in weightlessness. Observations were made of how Frank's sense of vertical orientation was compromised during flight. Frank completed a similar drawing, while he was still on the ground, and compared the two drawings after flight. Frank then went on to utilize a pair of royal blue Chinese silk flags as he considers, in part, the scientific law of the exchange of angular momentum. He compared their drift, adhesion and control of movement or lack thereof to the adhesion and control of acrylic paints as he experienced in a gravity based environment.