Discovering these elements gave me an understanding of how to proceed. As I looked at the space, one thing that dawned on me was that a window was behind the lead wall. That's what I wanted to do with the holes and the lines-make the little rooms into one being, one entity. They are level lines, eye lines. As someone passes on the other side, the hole fills up, then empties.
Holes do that.
When we were installing, we talked to each other through the holes. Penetrating something is a fabulous way of communicating. There's an image in a Genet play of two men in prison. They have no contact with each other except for a small hole in the prison wall. To share a cigarette, one man blows the smoke through the hole to the other man.