Spending time up there thinking really helped me figure out what I wanted to install in the space. Being in space where the only reason your there is to walk up the stairs, and to look out over the city and contemplate your own existence. It is a place where I feel a sense of isolation from the city, which I don't necessarily view as a bad thing. It is hard to exist within a society full of ideals which are often different from my own, but the view and also the journey help me to understand how we all exist in our own separate universe. I have been doing a lot of reading about existentialism, but have long had an interest in the absurdist ideas of Abert Camus. His novel The Stranger, was a great comfort to me at a time when I began to consider more deeply the consequences of having no faith. "To live without appeal, as he puts it, is a philosophical move that begins to define absolutes and universals subjectively, rather than objectively. The freedom of man is, thus, established in man's natural ability and opportunity to create his own meaning and purpose, to decide himself. The individual becomes the most precious unit of existence, as he represents a set of unique ideals that can be characterized as an entire universe by itself."