Man's desires, which are vertical in essence is, in the end, fated to embrace nature, which sets down its roots along the horizontal Therefore, man must use the cross-road of the vertical and the horizontal as a space for self-reflection and introspection

From a certain perspective, civilization itself is a struggle against a slow trek to nothingness, a futile struggle in trying to create a sharp-edged-solid-structure from frames made of flowing water sliced into shape by a sword.