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Three men work on a clay or plaster sculpture in a rough corrugated-metal shed with cardboard and debris around them. The man on the left in a grey shirt and orange shorts presses his hands into a large sculpted torso lying on a sack. A younger man in a white shirt and green-and-gold cloth sits behind, bent over the piece. On the right, an older man in a striped blue shirt and maroon lungi smooths a copper-coloured sheet draped across the work. Blue plastic drum and scattered packaging sit at the edges.

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