It probably looks a bit like something that some overpriced foreign design house might make and sell for holiday ornaments or decorative paperweights. It looks solid enough until, with a small smile, he throws it at the lake as though trying to skip it across the water--

And unfolds itself, origami-like at first, but then--somehow--much more ornately, until finally, a large metal swan stretches its wings and untucks its head out from under one of them.