Thanks for your feedback. The piece doesn't have a "whole point," at least not in the way I think you intend it. I prefer the term "resonance" if we're going to talk about meaning or meanings. I tend to think of the "whole point" of a piece of art as the amalgam of the responses it engenders or could engender. As for the stripes, or shifting bands of vertical color, I like the way they give an almost tangible texture to the background. I like the way they look too.