I was responding to the sense of wide open, unrestricted spaces in a lot of the artwork, but since I couldn’t make my space any bigger, I was drawn to make a space that was about the desire for wide open space — it is somewhat closed off, with an enclosed ceiling (probably a lightweight fabric-and-framework). You’ll have to duck a little to get in, after which the ceiling slopes up drastically to a wide opening, backed with a strongly lit fabric scrim, to give the effect of the sky we’d all like to escape to every once in a while. The tea, plus the narrative in the song, made me dwell a little on the comfortable domesticity that keeps us stuck, so I arranged some comfortable, if slightly ratty furniture around the more interactive artwork — the sculpture, music, and tea. The whole configuration accidentally ended up being a little nest-like, so I put a little emphasis on that! One of my strong connections was with swallow nests, in barns but mostly dug into the sides of cliffs — in my space they became niches, (or nests,) for teacups in a range of scales. There is also an accumulation of discarded and broken cups — those swallows sure make a mess! — because it’s sometimes the accumulation from our day-to-day habits that drives us to escape.