This work derives most of its interestingness from its background, a close-up vision of a colorful Ripple Wave, painted with tissue-paper shading. Upon this wave, lazily floating, are elongated black stalks, the 'bases' referred to by the work's title. The bases have achieved some level of symbiosis with this environment, as evidenced by how they seem to fade into it in places, towards the right side of the image.