New York is conceived as a roller coaster through a minefield of advertisements. This second collage study for Rollercoaster (America as a place of hyper reality) shows a close-up of the grid structure that supports the twisting Coney Island thrill ride. On top are placed not the flying billboards of the first study but fragments of ads cut into wedge shaped pieces. It looks as though a billboard has shattered or been blown up by a bomb. The ad fragments include a severely cropped smoking cowboy, one seductive female eye and one commanding masculine eye. Fragments of words relate to the logo for Marlboro cigarettes. A pulp text and a grid of black diamonds add further layers of pattern to these images that suggest the frontier, adventure, sex, and voyeurism.

Robert encountered three questions at art school, all related to postmodernism: 1) Where does our information come from and is it reliable? 2) Is it possible to create an artwork that is personal that has meaning for others? 3) What is the difference between making an observation about the world and making a difference in the world? The first question is philosophical. The second question is psychological. The third question is political. Art exists at the intersection of these three realms.