Taylor worked
as Rauschenberg's studio assistant from 1975 to 1982, and the legendary artist's repurposing of trash and ordinary objects for fine art is an evident influence on his Collection of Perishable Rings (1988), where
assorted discarded circular
items — a tin can, a cork, a roll of masking tape — form a mesmerizing sequence of shapes that seem to roll around, on top of, and within each
other.
Of course, you can also get your notifications on the curved edge, reading snippets of emails, seeing missed calls and unread message counts, and
other assorted items without so much
as a swipe.