When I found this piece I felt it was was struggling to become. Because of it's tiny lion paws it symbolizes a living thing that is captive in service. I rejoined the legs lengthened them by unraveling their scrolling pattern. I did this to articulate better the will to stand that I could see in the piece. I also wanted to show the splay that these legs had been designed to have. Their position meant using those legs is made almost impossible. This furnishing (a carriage clock) could no longer do it's job so to speak as the clock face had been removed. The absence in the torso was for me very moving. The piece was in a sense free of it's labour but also looked like it was a vase not broken but not able to do the work of contain anything anymore because of the holes. Now it is doubly free but still stuck and it seemed to me to be continually articulating that stuck state. The absence in the middle spoke to me of it's previous soulless labouring existence marking time for someone, and everyone else, and the horror of nowhere else to go after that.