Rosenquist’s experience as a billboard painter contributed to a unique vision; his imagery shifts from telescopic to microscopic. Rosenquist bears witness to this country’s triumphs and defeats, its explorations of outer space, and its inquiry into inner truths. Every four years since 1964, the artist has created a “Presidential Election” painting, a “reality check” on the viability and survival of the American Dream. Against a background of trade wars and star wars, “Masquerade” sets into perspective man’s proclivity for destruction—the Stealth bomber—and nature’s wondrous capacity for creation—the butterfly emerging from the caterpillar.