Liquid metaphors sloshed around in my head for several days. Nothing felt doable until I remembered the large glass neon “a” I had stashed away. I decided to play with the two words rather than depict a liquid. I needed a way to mount and display the fragile glass “a,” and something to act as liquid. Years before, I had found a half-circle of a large, three-inch wide, blue plastic water pipe left after a municipal construction. It was 24” in diameter and very dense. I realized that if I turned the arch upside down, I had a blue bowl of liquid. I created a wire arch and added it to the blue base. I suspended the “a” from this arch using thin black wire, letting the wire stay a bit loose and wander vine-like along the glass body of the “a.” To finish, I created a leaf out of sheet metal, painted it, and added it as a life accent.