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The artist wrote accompanying mythology for each Stupad sculpture:
“Stupads thrive on the other-than-rational. Once a week, owners of the Absurd Offering Stupad must feed them gifts: tokens of serendipitous, illogical, emotional, and happenstance. A lost sock, a button that can’t find its shirt, a tuft of lint, a nail clipping from under the rug, a dadaist poem, a line of endlessly looping code, teardrops shed when the finger got pinched by the slamming door, forgotten passwords, the feeling of a departed loved one nearby, the face burning though it does not yet know shame. Inserted into the hollow shaft of the Stupad, these offerings are simply accepted, never judged. They disappear from sight, but they are still there, making the Stupad glow brighter with each additional offering. The Absurd Offering Stupad teaches us to pay attention to what is found and experienced. It shows us the beauty and significance of what is already there.” —Timea Tihanyi