Persistence of vision is a phenomenon of the eye that allows an afterimage to remain on the retina for about one twenty-fifth of a second. This phenomenon is caused by a visual form of memory known as iconic memory. This sculpture is a replica of Marcel Duchamp's iconic readymade sculpture, Bicycle Wheel (1913). In a sense, this sculpture is the persistence of Duchamp's vision and the persistence of the word "vision," brought to life by the persistence of a viewer's vision.