They both stated that "We tried a spoon over water, terminating in an island, similar in form to an earlier fantastic proposal to replace Navy Pier on Lake Michigan. It's silver color and edges suggested ice-skating, a popular thing to do during the cold winters of Minneapolis. The raised bowl of the spoon, in its large scale, suggested the bow of a ship. Coosje, however, had always considered the spoon form in itself too passive a sculptural subject, which she had once playfully demonstrated by placing a wooden cherry with a stem constructed from a nail into a spoon found in her studio, an act that instantly energized the subject." During the process of building this there were no problems throughout the making. Claes says that " I get my most ingenious ideas when I'm eating.
