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Anish Kapoor always makes the viewer doubt his perceptions. Kapoor plays with illusions, or at least with the feeling of illusions. Several opposing principles such as mind and matter, presence and absence and male and female merge together here. The heavy object is dematerialised. It is extremely frontal and is viewed mainly from one side. This pronounced frontality refers to and can be linked to painting, which often plays with illusions too. The space being shown appears to be empty. But it is a potential space, a tangible emptiness that is different from the non-space, even though this seems infinite. The stone is rough on the outside and ethereal on the inside, and there is something mysterious about it.