Sarmento’s sculpture references the fault line on which Portugal, the artist’s home country, rests. The last major earthquake in Portugal was 1755 and its looming inevitability is a national and personal apprehension. The artist remembers his father, who was terrified of earthquakes, sleeping with a glass of water on his bedside table. Not to drink, but to look at the surface of the water to see if any ripples would form announcing something was shaking. It has been a compelling image to Sarmento since then. This sculpture is a representation of “someone, of an idea, of a concept, of a feeling, of anguish and fear.”