The cream - colored surface of the work has several very intriguing circular bas - reliefs as well as a boldly painted diagonal element in the center the top of which intersects with a row of gray dots that escalate slightly in size and parallel a large
iron rod whose curved tone, like a cane handle, rises above the top of the four large panels.
He noted the famous case of Phineas Gage, a railroad construction foreman
whose brain was penetrated by a large
iron rod in an 1848 industrial accident.