The idea behind Steven Cruz’s work was an observation of gay subcultures such as gay saunas and other places or ways gay men resort to while in search of pleasure and anonymity. Cruz draws parallels between intercourse and the consumption of substance. An instinctive, even primitive need linked to survival, but taken to the extreme by society’s oppression of queer people, denying them to live out their fantasies or basic sexual attraction shamelessly.

Hence, in the center of Cruz's work stands the reaction of gay men to systemic humiliation of queer sexual desire, manifesting itself in a hunt for short-term pleasure and quick gratification, fueled by a suppressed, yet volcanic lust.

The color blue stereotypically stands for boys. There is only room for boys/men. Cruz uses it in his work as a way to point out the “mask for mask” attitude, commonly found in the community.

Furthermore, and as an extension to the artist initial idea, is inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, more specifically, by his general treatment of food and the scenes in the bathhouse. A world filled with gluttonous, phantasmagorical characters. The manner in which the creatures devoure everything on their way (or even fight for it!) echoes with how Curz wishes to represent the human body as both a vessel and a fount of sexual desire.