The horned figure reclines at the center while the coils open to either side — and the size you choose decides whether the room observes that stillness or is held inside it.

Her arms lift behind her head; serpents run outward to both edges with jaws open, smoke rising through black rock, white butterflies suspended in the mist. Width governs firmly at nearly twice as wide as tall, and the outermost serpent heads need real lateral clearance to hold their menace. Set the frame at the midpoint of the wall span — perfect mirror symmetry runs through this composition, so the frame's axis and the figure's axis must be one and the same, and a hang pushed to one side breaks a balance the artwork has spent its whole width establishing. What sits below governs the height; chased upward toward a tall beam, the work strands the seating beneath it. Modest sizes hold the individual scales along a flank, the gold of the horns, a single white butterfly against the dark. Chosen large, the piece becomes the deep horizontal the room arranges itself around.

• Lateral Clearance — 12–18 in (30–46 cm) per side for small works; 18–30+ in (46–76+ cm) for large
• Hang Height — lower edge 8–12 in (20–30 cm) above what stands below, read from seated and standing
• Artwork Width — 70–85% of the console, platform, or seating width beneath it
• Viewing Distance — 5–8 ft (1.5–2.4 m) for detail; 10–16 ft (3.0–4.9 m) for the full composition