The Pauper’s Ballroom is what Pedro’s parents told him when they were walking down to the beach or to a clearing or any other beautiful place in nature. A palace that only required your presence to enjoy. A pauper’s ballroom.

The way to the ballroom is to climb the stairway, turn around and then descend. The ballroom is the playa but best appreciated through the descent of a grand staircase, giving you the trappings of grandeur, while being merely pretense to the actual beauty of the free, natural space of the playa.

"Nothing” is the absence of substance. It is the void. In the universe, there is infinitely more “nothing” than anything else. By proportion, things, people, possessions, fancy cars, fighter jets, or a pebble on the ground, by proportion is actually so insignificant as to be inconsequential. The void, you might say is the infinite unknown, what some refer to as God. In this way, the “Stairway to Nothing” is the “Stairway to the Void”, “Stairway to God.”

Or its just the “Stairway to the Playa’s Second Floor.” You need to go up to come down, ascend to descend and behold the ballroom