A tree stump is a physical record of time. Annual rings usually allow us to read age, growth, droughts, and interruptions. In this object, however, the center — the point from which the structure once expanded — is removed. What remains is the periphery: the outer layers, closer to the present, while the inner history is absent. The void functions as a sign of loss rather than absence of meaning — a biography that cannot be fully reconstructed because its origin has been extracted rather than erased.
The work proposes a physical interpretation of time not as accumulation, but as displacement. Stability is no longer produced by a central core; instead, the structure depends on external supports. This shift introduces a political dimension: the hollowed center evokes questions of centralization, dependence, and the extraction of resources. The removed core recalls colonial and economic models in which value is taken from a center that once held the structure together, leaving behind a peripheral body that must rely on artificial systems of support.