[1] Writing for Animation for Adults, blogger Yvonne G. describes the film as "a gorgeous rush" in which[2] The environment is an abstract painting in motion inhabited by two graceful and delicate felines.
Perspective expands and you feel like you’ve been ported into a and out of a mind that sees only shape.rarefilm notes that its charcoal- and pastel-drawn designs evoke Art Deco and Cubism.
[4] In 2017, it was screened at New York City's Metrograph Theater––alongside such shorts as Lisze Bechtold's conceptually similar Moon Breath Beat––as part of its "Restored Animated Rarities" program hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
It is one of only a handful of independently produced shorts named in The 50 Greatest Cartoons, where it (mislabeled The Furies, misdated to 1976, and misattributed to Sarah Petty) appears among "Other Great Cartoons" that did not qualify for the main list but had nonetheless received "a substantial number of votes".
[6] The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has named it among his favorite animated films, praising the "skill and patience" of its work.