This work was inspired by the book A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Mexican artist and writer Manuel deLanda, which draws connections between geological history and the shaping of human societies and civilization. In the video, thoughts are presented on tectonic plates, granite and sandstone, the formation of stones and ores, the origins of the material from which a monument is made, and the formation of society and human masses. In this context, it also relates to the New Materialist narrative, as described in Félix Guattari's text The Three Ecologies, which emphasizes the need to consider social, economic, and environmental crises together.
Within the context of the physical existence and journey of the monument, the work highlights social and geological transformation. Canonica’s Nightmare, the third part of the Sculptor’s Nightmare series, is based on the idea that there may be imaginary connections between the mind of the sculptor creating the work and the mind of the work itself. The piece is produced with the notion that social and physical traumas can lead to certain beginnings and that nightmares may reappear with different meanings in different geographies.