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A rough outdoor stone-carving yard under a thatched palm-leaf shelter with bamboo poles. A lone man in a checked shirt and dark trousers sits on a stone block at centre, with white rough-hewn granite and marble blocks around him. In the foreground a dark car and two parked motorcycles sit among scattered rubble. Several partly carved white stone figures and sculptural forms are visible under the shelter. No a person candidate is visible.

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