If the source analog is not familiar and not visible, then spectators may struggle with processing.

Visual jokes has been regarded as a redundant signal in verbal communication.

working on extreme distortions that border on abstraction

“If you work on a non-consensus problem, you have the additional burden of having to do something that's interesting enough, novel enough or articulate enough to change the way people think,”

Eve Marder, Nature

You break art projects into smaller units so you can commit atomically.