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A dim workshop at night where workers lift a large, half-finished white plaster sculpture with chains and a green hoist hook. The figure appears to be an animal-shaped vahana with a raised trunk-like form and broken plaster edges, with loose straw or fibre beneath it and white plaster dust on the floor. Several shirtless men in checked lungis steady the chains and crouch around the piece, while a fluorescent tube lights the scene. Some workers are partly visible at the left edge.

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