Textual references from Hegel, Guy Debord, Sade, Wittgenstein and others meet up with the works of Bernini and the ruined female divinities of the Cambodian temple Angkor Wat. Especially important to Kawai are the forms painted by two Japanese masters of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Tawaraya Sotatsu and Hasewaga Tohaku. While almost impossible to see in the nausea-inducing sea of images, they represent precisely what is lost in the speeded-up life where neither space nor time is ever empty – the capacity to contemplate, and the sense of the divine.