Robert Smithson's "Honeymoon Machine" incorporates photographic imagery of a female pin-up, fusing body and machine. Wires and circuitry connect the figure to a device resembling a generator, suggesting a transfer of energy between the human body and an industrial system. Here, sexuality becomes a form of energy, circulating through a mechanized circuit.

In Radio Cyclops (1964), Robert Smithson places a wide-open eye at the center, linked via a circuit to a hot pink band of color. Looking at the sculpture, one sees one’s own eyes looking back, reflected and multiplied in its mirrored surfaces. Made at a time when Smithson was experimenting with plastics and developing sculptural ideas from his collages, this wall-based sculpture incorporates Plexiglass, polished blue steel, and mirrors on a wooden support.