Creative progress

My response to the Gaming Counters tube was a multiplicity of circles. My initial impression was that this response was to the cross section of the tube. But having produced a page of differently coloured circles, the image could represent the imagined counters themselves. Of course the counters and the tube are in an intimate relationship - the tube is shaped specifically to encase a stack of counters. Morevoer, whether the tube is full or empty of counters, it contains something. That something is either a cylinder of counters or a cylinder of space (or some combination of the two). In turn, a cylinder of space provoked a second response. Namely, the Japanese concept of 'Ma': the negative space between objects; the silence between musical notes; the distance between to Karate combatants. All entities in themselves, not mere voids. Perhaps the circles are cross sections of the space inside the Gaming Counters tube.