The work brings together multiple artistic traditions: from monumental Socialist Realist sculpture with its homoerotic predilection for powerful figures of labour vanguards, through the Surrealist objects of Władysław Hasior and elements of Kantor’s imaginarium, to the Italian movement of arte povera. The enormous striding figure is constructed from mining tools — pickaxes, ladders, chains — set against granite bones and silver ore. This work is one of a series in which Okoński confronts the elements of gender stereotypes and the imaginings that shape national identity, as present in Polish culture.