Having set out, inspired by John Hejduk’s Wall House, to do the thinnest possible construct ever—one that would require no foundation, no footprint, a pure folded plate of sorts—I was also inspired by the painting, Bowl with Fruit, Violin and Wineglass by Picasso, which revealed the culmination of the Cubist movement through apparition, displacement, and refraction. The only painting actually to depict refraction, it becomes the spontaneous compression of time and light, a challenge to physically manifest the observation of change. (as reprinted in Education of an Architect, p256)