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The surface is occupied edge to edge. At the centre, over a navy-blue ground, green foliage of small leaves piles up; below, to left and right, large fern fronds open in a bluish white. The whole perimeter burns in red and black, and long canes and strokes in white and yellow cross the composition diagonally.

Among the vegetation in the upper area a pale face emerges, its eyes barely marked, half-covered by leaves and ringed by a halo drawn in yellow. It is hard to see at first and, once seen, impossible to unsee.

Along the lower edge, in yellow letters on red, three words can be read: MENE on the left, TEKEL at the centre and PERES on the right; beside them, without quite enclosing them, are hand-drawn loops and circles in yellow. They are the words that, in the Book of Daniel, a hand writes on the wall during Belshazzar's feast. Below the image, in pencil, run the artist's proof annotation, the artist's signature and the date; the signature is cursive and cannot be read clearly in the photograph.