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Hung high on the walls like church icons, sculptures by olivas consist of garden shears wired onto small puddles of iridescent, dichroic glass.

When he’s not studying polarized electron scatterings and “chiral and dichroic effects,” he likes to pencil out the Newtonian principles of football, and he spent years puzzling over the beautiful parabolic flight of a long spiral pass, publishing a paper on it in 2021.

To get to lunch, attendees passed under a colorful spiked 16-foot plexiglass archway coated in a reflective dichroic film, which was originally designed to protect spacesuits from cosmic radiation — and now costs about $125 per square foot.

One piece, a study on the absence of color in the winter, cast a rainbow of reflections on the walls through the use of layered dichroic glass.

“Mother Nature’s Gun,” by the art duo Robert Mickelsen and Calvin Mickle, is a multicolored AK-47 adorned with leaves, butterflies and larva bullets; the “Hayabusa Satellite,” by Washington state artist Sagan, is an elaborate white satellite disc sculpture housing shimmery dichroic bits.