Each of these 30 animated posters "slowly evolves through a series of carefully orchestrated transitions of text and image," usually contradicting the initial message and confounding viewers' expectations.
It is his most fully realized work to date and one of the most accomplished pieces of art on the Web.... Like Vladimir Nabokov and Tom Stoppard, the Polish-born Szyhalski has an Eastern European's flair for extracting the multiple meanings from a word in his newly adopted tongue.
The Wall Street Journal quoted Szyhalski as saying "that the Web artist relies on audience participation to make the work exist.
"[9] "Originally premiered in 2001, Heitzeg's massive opus was augmented this time by state-of-the-art graphics created by students at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, impressively directed by Piotr Szyhalski and projected on a huge screen above the chorus.
[11] In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and political and social upheaval in the United States, Szyhalski drew and inked a poster a day from March 24 until the U.S. presidential election on November 3, 2020.
[14] The New York Times said the series used "the style and language of propaganda posters to capture the pain and absurdity of the pandemic, with heavy doses of sarcasm and rage at the federal government's response... [T]he works are meticulous but piercing, like a carefully released primal scream.