This work depicts a magical machine, that of painting, by means of a puzzle that is almost ironic, as it shows us only a partial view of the images that could give us the solution. The remainder is hidden behind the canvas, which is occupied by drawings, graphics, and above all a long inscription in unknown characters created by the artist himself.

Like a true islander, Mariano Mayol focuses most of his work on representations of the sea. His seas are abstract, calm, indefinite and deep. He is interested in the coming and going of the sea, the wind whipping up the waves and the spherical accumulations of seaweed formed by the tide.

Although this picture is unrelated to maritime subject-matter, it displays his concern with movement, with an origin and a destination, like the waves of the sea. The hemispherical parts of this imaginary machine are arranged vertically, floating in a black space. They seem to move in a descending pattern along paths suggested by lines whose destination is circumscribed by that white field which occupies the base.

Unlike the rest of the composition, this horizontal band is much more material and textural. It is an important visual feature, since it breaks the verticality of the work and reduces that rectangle to a black square. The whole is framed, in turn, by the background of natural linen, a picture within the picture which harmonises the contrast of the black and the white.

In contrast to this ordered structure, the artist develops his hieroglyphic, an inscription interspersed with dedications, drawings, graphics and invented characters, in the “non-visible” part of the picture, as if it were an enigma.