This project was to design an animatronic display whose theme is a meeting of the opposites. I also had to design the display as being part of a promenade or open air mall. I had trouble developing an idea for some time, then I had a "Eureka" moment. I had picked up a copy of Kafka's Metamorphosis from a free book bin at a local media store, thinking that I would read it again in my spare time. I had been carrying the book around for a few weeks and coincidentally, David Cronenbergs' Naked Lunch had been running on a cable channel. I developed the idea of William S. Burroughs encountering Kafka. Burroughs would be an exterminator, since he wrote a short story called "The Exterminator!" and he was an exterminator for a short time in the 1940's. Kafka would be a Cockroach like his character from "The Metamorphosis". Since this display was steeped in literature, the promenade would be in a bookstore or library.