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When Princeton University commissioned this work, it inaugurated a new phase for the University’s campus art program. Until then, the University’s campus art collection had comprised almost entirely monumental bronze or steel sculptures. This work, in contrast, was incorporated into the design of Bloomberg Hall at the suggestion of the dormitory's donors and is carefully scaled to its architectural setting. In keeping with LeWitt’s practice, the artist came up with the concept and then hired other artists to execute his plans. A team of five draftspersons, led by Tomas Ramberg and Megan Dyer, worked in the ellipse dorm over the course of two summer months. After reproducing LeWitt's diagrams on the ceiling, they embarked on an intricate process of masking off sections of the drawing with tape and painting others in order to maintain the hard-edged separation of colors between the segments.