It's one of those ideas from art that goes into the "I could have thought of that" department. But you didn't. Serra did. He gets the credit. The artist's idea was for the observer takes into account the different spaces created by the duplicate plates. Another version is in New York at the Museum of Modern Art. He is quoted on the MoMA website as saying, "The viewer in part became the subject matter of the work, not the object. His perception of the piece resided in his movement through the piece, [which] became more involved with anticipation, memory, and time, and walking and looking, rather than just looking at a sculpture the way one looks at a painting."
Fine. Now here comes the catch. Since the design has curves in it, and visitors can essentially hide within its "borders," this has taken an unexpected usage for a certain segment of the population: a urinal. So if you pay a visit, you might want to be prepared to hold your nose.
Here's a video on a similar project.
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