A hand-muscle trainer is placed upside down in a decorated glass bowl elevated on small feet. The trainer is immobilized with epoxy. Its purple handles rise from the ornate bowl, reading less as stored tools and more as something half-born, half-exhumed. This shifts the register from domestic display to an uneasy apparition. Tension is held permanently; effort becomes fossilized. The object refers only to itself: strength that cannot be exercised, tension that cannot be released, improvement without a subject.