The piece takes its title, and much of its inspiration, from the work of the novelist Franz Kafka, whose classic writings still provide us with some of our most compelling metaphorical insights into the complex, proliferating information networks which increasingly dominate our lives. The Great Wall of China is effectively a story-telling machine: a wall of words (all derived from the original Kafka story), which recombine in everchanging conjunctions as the reader interacts with the work. In some areas of the Wall, words are composed as short prose fragments, which evolve in relation to each other, and within themselves, such that themes and events gradually emerge. Other components are structured more as poems; yet others as Koans or Chinese aphorisms.