"Cooling Room II" is so named for the words printed on the discarded boxes that Joyce Wieland used to make three-dimensional assemblages of found objects. Drawing on her background as a film animator, she divided each box like the frames of a film, providing a sequence of events from which the viewer could construct a story. The themes evoked by the individual objects suggest travel, tragedy, love, and time passing as the sequence of cups reveals their ever-diminishing contents. The lipstick on the rims implies a female perspective and alludes to the artist's stated dread of disaster, death, and loss.