Inspired by modern art

I was eating in a restaurant one night, and there was an art gallery next door, and there was an abstract painting of a woman, and she had a spoon in the middle of her head. And I said, 'Some day, I'm going to use that.'

And it took me a couple of years - when I was doing the Cardassians, I happen to remember the spoon and the head, and it wound up on the Cardassians.