In the 1990s he made yet another aesthetic shift in his own art, returning to the creation of small, colored objects. In One Rotor One Counterweight, from 1993, a rotor hangs over a triangular base, and small painted rectangular planes circle to produce a kaleidoscope of bright colors. Early in his career, dissatisfaction with the ability to show motion through painting had led him to work in sculpture. Now, late in life, he revisited the integration of color and motion through these small, colored objects that he called “paintings.”

from Kephart, Passages of Light and Time: George Rickey's Life in Motion (Notre Dame, 2009)