Exhibition assistant Francesca Lacey tries in vain to grab the telephone receiver from a curious piece of work created by legendary Scots artist George Wyllie.
The artist, who died in May, made the red phone sculpture especially for his daughter Elaine.
The work is part of the George Wyllie Retrospective: In Pursuit of the Question Mark, at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, which opens this Saturday.
It features works never seen before, as well as pieces rescued from obscurity.
Among the 300 artworks in the exhibition are hand-drawn Christmas cards the artist sent from the HMS Argonaut in 1944, and work from the 1960s when Wyllie, pictured, worked with Ron McKinven, the footballer-turned architect and interior designer.
The exhibition, which runs until February 2, will also feature ashes from the Straw Locomotive, which was burned after its display.
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