I see "Thoughts" now as a celebration of consciousness. Its particular elements and relationships were motivated by the idea that any arbitrary subset of life can also represent the whole. In this instance, sand, my daughter's beach rake, and a holographically winding staircase, were chosen.

At first, I imagined about twenty or so spiraling holographic steps where the viewer of any given one would see only the four steps or levels below him. He would not necessarily know of the development which led to the levels in his view, nor of the future evolution of those levels. The early steps were to be practice stages where I'd create the mood of the image and see what would or would not work. Of course, time ran out after only three steps and I was forced to effect a hurried closure with the fourth.

"Likeable, but not loveable", pretty well summed up my feelings at that time, though admittedly, I was thoroughly chilled and somewhat in awe of it. After deciding to advance the image still further, the hologram was placed in a drawer to wait out completion,

I did show it to people though, in as much as the image was fascinating whether finished or not. During these early months, with no title or mutually accessible language, the two most asked questions were, "What am I seeing?" and, "What do you mean by it?"

The hologram did grow on me though and one evening, five or six months after construction, I conceptually realized the image for what it really was: a three dimensional representation of the flow of our thoughts. In one moment, each element fell into place with a meaning and purpose as if planned in advance all along. And that the image, per se, cannot exist in our own physical space is as it should be.