Some one gave us a collection of bearings and bearing parts. Some one else gave me some new punchings ( the steps for my character) . I had a ring of logs on the front lawn which the grandkids used to jump from piece to piece. They seem to have outgrown it but maybe that provided the inspiration to do this piece. I was initially thinking of a workplace, going in circles, somedays up, somedays down but then thought it had more universal meaning than that.