Despite the many elements that come together in this painting, the viewer remains unable to rationalise the scene. A curtain suggests a medical setting, next to an operation table encompassing a machine equipped with a vicious blade. In the background, a figure is composed of disjointed elements, some more recognisably human than others. A naked back and elbow meets is spliced with ridged green and purple elements, culminating in a head with scrambled features, buckled to a mask with brutal leather straps.

As is frequent in Sarri’s works, elements with skilful shading and contouring are juxtaposed with strangely flat planes of colour, adding to the dreamlike atmosphere. A dotted line and a floating white shape seem to hint at an entirely different kind of artwork, as if elements from an abstract modernist painting by Miró or Kandinsky had floated onto the canvas.