I remembered the jumbled thoughts and twisty fear that envelops me when I’m confused – something akin to a panicked animal in a cage. I enlisted a former squirrel cage to become my mental metaphor, and some twisted, compressed wire mesh became the trapped fear. I added “confusion” spelled in brightly colored plastic letters suspended in the interior mesh. To capture the sense of spinning thoughts and panic, I added an old butter churn upside-down on top of the cage, embedded wires in the top spindle mimicking a carnival ride octopus, and attached familiar cartoon faces displaying panic and confusion. The cartoons began as black and white images I then colorized, each in two contrasting, out-of-register colors, to enhance the sense of unsettledness. When the crank is turned, the faces spin wildly about.