Thank you. My first thought was balloon as well. And it appears To have a crooked seam that runs just under the row of black rectangles, like the top and bottom halves are mismatched. It has a high-school-project look in that respect.
What initially caught my interest, however, was how genuinely weathered it looked. Given how shoddy it’s construction appeared, if the weathering was an intentional touch, I wouldn’t expect it to look so genuine. And the position of the rods was odd. It almost looks as though it’s a smaller piece of a larger industrial framework ... Read even more