This work is a collage composed of photographs of various staircases where people are said to have jumped, arranged to form a continuous staircase.​​

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Psychiatrist L. Binswanger discussed three modalities* that characterize schizophrenic patients, and examined universal human failures and setbacks. One of the modalities, "hubris," Binswanger likened to the point at which a mountain climber gets stuck on a rock face. "What we call psychotherapy is, after all, nothing more than trying to help the sick man "see" at what point he has become stuck."​

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We can only "see" the hardships and difficulties of others, but can we really imagine as close as possible to their hearts? Is that "hubris"?

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*Ludwig Binswanger (1956). "Drei Formen missglückten Daseins -Verstiegenheit, Verschrobenheit, Manieriertheit" Max Niemeyer Verlag / Tübingen.　(L. Binswanger (Author), T. Miyamoto (Supervisor), T. Seki (Translator). (1995). "Three forms of failed existence", Misuzu Shobo).

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