Utilizing the remainder of the elk hides, with their cut out,
empty circular forms, Jungen saturated one side of each hide in silver ink.
Art historian Lucy Lippard wrote at the time: «Certain elements — a central focus (often «
empty,» often
circular or oval), parabolic baglike
forms, obsessive line and detail, veiled strata, tactile or sensuous surfaces and
forms, associative fragmentation, autobiographical emphasis, and so forth — are found far more often in the work of women than of men.»