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The artwork combines the idea of tiny increments of change on the 3 pivots of the human leg and the theory of non-linear dynamics. In dynamical systems theory, the term chaos is applied to deterministic systems that exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions. This sensitivity means that a small change in the initial state will lead to progressively larger changes in later states. Tiny increments in non-linear dynamics lets in Chaos: a system that is predictable in principle but unpredictable in practice.

A major influence in this artwork is Marcel Duchamp’s 1913-14 work Three Standard Stoppages.  The new perspective of non-Euclidean geometry in Duchamp's experiment, demonstrates (as the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry actually did) that the shortest route from one point to another in curved space is not a line. Ubermensche Bolt plays with the interchangeability between the human and the mechanical and builds on the Futurist investigations by Boccioni and Ouspensky that emphasise time and motion or dynamism as being crucial to our comprehension of how to sense of four-dimensionality.