What Is This?

As a person who often uses narrow strips of sewn fabric to make art, it is very easy for me to get excited at the sight of something that appears to be a ready-made, almost completely refined and developed composition---- just sitting there minding its own business. Keep your eyes open and you will discover such wonderful gifts in unlikely places. This particular image also makes me want to paint the crenelated edges of paper torn out of a spiral bound sketchbook. Have you figured out what the photo is? They were two stacks of traffic cones, loitering next to a rest stop in West Virginia.