She was devised by Coventry carnival company Imagineer and special-effects company Artem, but most of the money – about £2m – and the muscle has come in cash, materials, inspiration, time, and metal-bashing sweat from Coventry University's engineering department, and manufacturers, artists and craftspeople across the region.
These are some of the raw materials, inspirations, and issues at work in the 27-year-old's bold and fascinating work.
Nature was a source of both material and inspiration for Schwitters, says Emma Chambers, one of the exhibit's curators.
Professional artists serve as instructors, and the collections of the museum are used as source material and inspiration.
At the same time she continues to live and work in South India, drawing on it as a source of material and inspiration.
It introduced an array of literary innovations, and has provided material and inspiration for writers from Chaucer, Rabelais and Shakespeare to Keats, Molière and Mann.
In place of the usual curatorial card that might provide some insight as to the material or inspiration behind the work, there is a sign saying, "No Trespassing, No Dumping".
While his fellow Hungarian Bartók used the eastern European folklore as material and inspiration, Ligeti uses anything he can find – for example, in the violin concerto there are several okarinas, instruments that are more than 10,000 years old.
The show's name, "Groundwork," is apt because Mr. Toia's main material and inspiration of late is mushrooms, especially bracket mushrooms with gills and a lot of surface area.
Of course, there's a time and a place for reinterpreted classics and plays about Asian marriages, but why are theatres sticking to formulas such as this instead of drawing on today's happily integrated British-Asian society, a society that offers a plethora of material and inspiration?
