Translumina I belongs to the artist’s Translumina Series, a group of works from the mid-1980s onward in which Anuszkiewicz moved beyond flat painting into three-dimensional or shaped wood constructions. In these works he combined geometric form with interwoven color to create optical vibration and a sense of visual depth or transparency.

Unlike his earlier strictly two-dimensional Op Art paintings, the Translumina pieces, especially in their sculptural forms, play with illusionistic space, surface relief, and color interaction. This series evolved from his interest in color, structure, and perceptual effects, extending those ideas into relief and shaped panel works.

The Translumina series broadly shows Anuszkiewicz’s continuing investigation of how color and form can energize a shape so it seems to glow or shift visually, even when the actual surface is static.