In this large-scale oil painting, Coward presents an imaginary reality where real-world elements merge with cartoonish imagery, creating an uncanny atmosphere. Some features feel familiar and recognisable, while others are distorted, blurred, or ambiguous. At the centre of the composition appears a character – part of Coward’s established repertoire of recurring motifs – with googly eyes that evoke cartoons or comic books.

In Coward’s paradoxical world, a sense of forlornness coexists with a feeling of ultimate freedom and endless possibility. The surreal atmosphere is amplified by the artist’s use of colours, which evoke a feeling of a past era, though one that never truly existed. The figure appears both absurd and lost in a spectral, irrational cityscape.