The form is based off Chinese scholar rocks or gong-shi (供石). They are rocks placed for contemplation and have other spiritual and health implications.

This process is about dealing with the past and using what is available to make a better future. The reclaimed lumber was removed and repurposed from an apartment building in the Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati built in the 1890’s. Over a century of repairs are present, impermanent, and always changing.  The original inhabitants of the building lived in smaller spaces working in nearby factories and worked in factories along Mill Creek. 

Once considered the most polluted water body in the United States, the Mill Creek Valley has been slowly cleaning and reclaiming itself after the throws of industrialization which have altered the landscape for centuries to come.  The sculpture is placed in the Imago Nature Preserve where the environment is also being repurposed from abandoned housing to a nature preserve.