Subtitled "Two Victorian Time Travellers Discovering Lovelessness In The Year 2791", this painting is about the discovery of a doomed relationship, or perhaps its memory, or a distant warning of what is to come. The two chromium figures are the lovers here, their skeletal remains standing like a monument in the desert, next to the destroyed remains of New York. The grey rose indicates the death, perhaps the distant past or distant future.

The red rose on the left is the present, or more vibrant reality, the embracing couple in the rocks a reflection of the time when the skeletons were flesh. If is from these that the Victorian time travellers, British soldiers complete with pith helmets, discover the colossal robot remains.

In terms of composition secrets, the rocks, are from an actual scene in Death Valley, California; the desert dragged to New York using the magic of art. The embracing couple are the suitably romantic Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi, from the appropriately entitled silent film Blood and Sand (1922).

Framed size: 75 x 100 cm / 29 ½ x 39 ¼ in