The untitled painting consists of two parts, upper and lower depicting two related successive scenes. The upper part depicts an eye, a bird and a reclining woman, the lower part two prostrate human figures and a bird's head. Birds are a constant motif of African art in which "...they symbolize strength and life and are often fertility symbols."5 In the first scene the red bird has impregnated the woman, her belly has expanded and her breasts are bursting with milk. Her head tilted upside down is divided by two different colors indicating the dual nature of human beings, the spiritual and the physical or the duality of a public and a private person. The dislocated head showing no inkling of reason and intelligence is very loosely connected to the body. The rest of the body, itself is conceived as a vehicle of procreation. The upper scene is bathed with minute reddish particles of sperm which are aquiver and in motion. The all-seeing eye of knowledge and wisdom, the eye of the creator, presides over both the upper and the lower scene. The bird's halo signifies its sacred origin while the woman's head also has a halo because of her union with a sacred bird. This sexual union between a bird and a woman can be understood as a union between heaven (symbolized by the bird which descends from the heights of the cosmos) and earth (symbolized by the fertility which both women and earth have in common).    In the lower scene, the birth between heaven and earth is enacted as the bird acts as a witness. The mother is on the left side from the viewpoint of a spectator (on the right side from the position of the inner observer), the child is on the right side and on the left from the position of the inner observer. Both mother and child have halos and so does the bird indicating their spiritual side inherited from the bird and the earthly nature descended from the mother is shown by their divided faces. The painting in its totality is a fertility narrative progressing in time from the right side, in relationship to the all-seeing eye, to the left and from the upper impregnation scene to the lower birth scene.    The red color of the bird signifies virility. "Red, the color of FIRE and of BLOOD.. regarded universally as the basic symbol of the life-principle, with its dazzling strength and power..."6 It is also an attribute of the all-seeing eye which surrounds it. The eye is in the form of a circle which philosophers and theologians consider: "...as symbolizing the godhead viewed not only as immutable, but also as a goodness broadcast in the creation, subsistence and consummation of all things, or what Christian tradition would term the ALPHA and OMEGA."7 The eye symbolizing the godhead can be considered as the benevolent creator of all life releasing and radiating the sperm in all directions. The tears in the eyes of mother and son hear witness to the suffering which accompanies the human condition of birth, old age and death. They could also be an allusion to the Christian tradition of the grieving mother and the sacrificial son.