…While she takes her general approach from science, or at least its methodological cousin in art, minimalism…Olson transcends the Spartan rigor of that movement by imbuing its abstract, non-metaphorical framework with philosophical and environmental concerns. The scholar David Nye coined the term, “the technological sublime,” to speak of Americans’ justifiable feelings of awe before engineered achievements …The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke declared, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” …
...Olson adopts the processes and procedures of scientific inquiry but makes of it something magical.
— Dewitt Cheng, exhibition Ccurator, in “The Technological Sublime" (exhibition essay)
