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An elongated mass, lying flat, sheathed in a silvery metallic crust with a crumpled relief. Beneath the coating the silhouette stays branch-like: fine ramifications at one end, a denser section bristling with short spurs at the other. The red lacquered steel-wire stand holds it in suspension, roughly eighty-nine centimetres in all. The piece steps away from the usual gesture: the material is wrapped rather than hollowed, the object lies horizontal, and the taut base speaks the language of modernist furniture. A hull hovering in place, or a branch caught under frost; the title leaves both readings open.
The steel wire and silvered shell look toward mid-century design, Bertoia first among them. The found object is coated here, transformed without being negated: a path between the chthonic outsider register and an almost pop elegance.