Scattered across the room are cardboard boxes and wooden crates filled with Coca-Cola cans, tools, cleaning supplies, magazines, and American flags.

[1] Elaine Dannheisser purchased the work after it was shown and subsequently donated it to the Museum of Modern Art.

Writing in Artforum, critic Jeffrey Kastner called the sculpture "show-stopping" and "a real-life experience a hundred times more potent than any postgrad seminar on the artifactual narratives of American abjection.

"[5] Upon seeing the sculpture for the first time, former San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator John Caldwell called the piece "jaw-dropping.

"[6] Discussing the beer can motif in the work, critic Lane Relyea wrote that Noland presents "an image of overwhelming intoxication and, at the same time, incredible waste, the whole mighty edifice destined to be chugged and pissed away; and, behind that, another image, that of the eroded canyons of the American West.