So, I tried to create a short little animation in Maya.  The animation worked.  It was pretty.  It did not export.  Well, my reasoning for using Maya is simple -I wanted to express the 3-dimensional experience of Statom's art and the experience of viewing the art, so I wanted to do a 3D animation, which would bring out the movement of the light and the reflections of "Blue Towers".  I created a glass sphere on top of a blue twisting tower of glass, which references the artwork as a piece.  However, the most important part of the piece was the animation.  I created a black prism which would wind its way up the tower, drawing inspiration from the glass tower in the artwork which seems like a moving tower.  Then there were the revolving planes of color, which I created in a square around the tower and sphere.  My experience was one of discovery, so the colors would revolve and around the piece so that each second is different and new.  I wanted something that would express my excitement and inquisitiveness and confusion with the piece, so the revolving, constantly moving pieces were the result