Caught in a mental state of feeling as though there are these two isolating options, neither exactly ideal. A vague sense that the master may unlock the cage door if I neglect to touch the ball for such a duration. The product of psychological conditioning from addiction apps creating a sense of confinement and conditional release, which once in fact wasn’t there. A duality emerges. To feel the cage as the master’s working, yet to feel the cage as reality where the master has passed.