“What does the installation in the other room look like?” The question in big, bold letters challenges viewers on the top of the sign-in sheet at Rosewood Gallery.

The answers: a whale, a spaceship, a “Buck Rogers” spaceship and a “final fantasy airship or something from the animator who made Princess Mononoke.” This viewer thought it resembled a Medieval torture device. The whale, spaceship or torture device was imagined by Daniel McDonald, an assistant professor of art and head of sculpture at Ashland University in Ohio.

In the room that holds the sign-in sheet there are tiny sculpted creatures that were created by Simon Boses of Seminole, Fla. It’s almost like stepping out of a dark theater, with your eyes adjusting to the bright light. The viewer is enjoying the tiniest of details in his figurative works, then is hit by the enormous white “being” when crossing into the other room. This is a must-see show.

Boses is a fan of superhero cartoon characters, and it shows. But his Captain America has been joined by comrades from Asia, Egypt and Australia, with other cultural influences, as well. His 7-inch tall earthenware “From the Ashes” is a winged creature with a beaked nose, aviatorlike glasses and a thunderbolt on his chest. His companion, “Things Remembered,” resembles an aborigine holding a small mouse-like puppet.

“I grew up watching cartoons surrounded by art from other cultures,” said Boses, who received a bachelor of fine art from Maryland Institute College of Art. “For me, a piece of art is successful when it reveals a familiar moment in what it is to be human.”

So, we go from the familiar to the definitely unfamiliar that is McDonald’s installation. His “narrative installation of bronze, steel, plastics and video displays the complexities of paradox and the irresponsibility of manipulation.” The huge white fabric body with stretched arms is wired for the imagination.

“The goal of this work is to explore a juxtaposition of materials, while highlighting the curiosity of what may or may not stick to the surface,” said McDonald, who received his bachelor of fine art degree from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and a master of fine arts from Clemson University. “My stimulation is drawn only from intuitive deduction. Sometimes the reason we make anything is simply to see if it will work.”

Does it work? Only the viewer knows for sure.