Photo: Gladstone Gallery
You're looking at Tower Snake, a spiral ramp built with bamboo and cast-aluminum snake skeleton by Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, currently on display at the Gladstone Gallery in New York.
The Gallery describes Yong Ping's creation in amusing art-speak as "subtly transforming the cruciform symbol of Christian salvation into the tangled figure of Edenic tempation" (huh?) but I say it's pretty darn cool to imagine walking into the belly of a giant snake: Link | More photos at the Gladstone Gallery
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I'd say it subtly transforms awesomeness into the tangled figure of Win.
You step on the flat tabs around the top to drive it into the ground like a triple shovel. You attach a rope to the eye in the middle and pull up to remove the device from the hole. Pulling in the center causes the hinged center bits to contract; the curved rods holding the top together slide through their fittings enabling the top to expand; the whole construction grasps the dirt it surrounds enabling you to pull all that dirt from the hole.
I doubt it's for digging holes, if this were the case i would think the "blades" would be metal.
So there