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A root of roughly fifty-eight centimetres, standing on its widened base, its near-russet wood coiling in a serpentine twist. The knots and erosion-opened cavities stay in place; into two of them, in the upper third, raw stones are set, mineral lodged in the hollow of dead wood. The base opens into an arch on two supports, like outstretched limbs; toward the right, tapered protrusions suggest a snout without ever settling into a figure. The piece wavers between stump and beast, and that wavering is what holds the eye.