The two women represent the two psychic entities of the artist:

– On the left a relatively well finished entity, with regular features, and which represents the order, the injunction, the inner judge, the policeman, the punisher… Its mission is to push the artist to obey the rules of society and to follow the precepts of family education. She wants each painting to be an aesthetic success to please potential buyers, harasses the artist to be productive, foreseeing and triggers stress and anxieties when she believes that he is not following the injunctions.

– On the right an archaic entity, ill-defined, with crude features, and which does not care at all about aesthetics, productive time, judgments…Its role is to bring up the repressions submerged in the deep unconscious, the unanswered questions , and make them appear on the canvas.

The inner judge (character on the left) perceives this as a danger and refuses, provoking with each new painting a conflict, a contradiction which ends up being resolved when the aesthetics and the message, content and form, find unity.

In the background, we can see two animals plunging their paws into the dark waters of the psyche to bring certain knots often linked to childhood to emerge towards a blue, clear and peaceful sky (the artist’s cognitive surface).

The crosses in the skulls and the plaintive air of the entities correspond to a moment of great temporary confusion for the artist.

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