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The picture was painted in the years when Paizs Goebel found his own style in art. Although the influence of Csontváry and that of Chirico's Tunisian series can be recognized, the picture still has a style of its own. Standing on the left in the foreground, the artist is dominating both the foreground and the background. Behind him one can have a look out of the window, a motif descending from romanticism: the window open to the world symbolyzes the wish to go away and the ambition to be free. In the inside of the room there are two birds of coloured feathers, one is on the window sill and the other is hanging on a nail. In Paizs Goebel's art dead birds keep returning, in symbolism it represents for death wish or fear of death, but it is the counterpoint of freedom as well, representing that the artist's dreams are curtailed. The artist is holding one hand protectively in front of himself, and with the other one directs the spectator to the outer world. Two pigeons flying together are approaching the grains of wheat in his right hand. In the distance there are a blue lake with a white sailing boat and the grotesquely slim figure of the artist, romantic symbols of wanting to leave, departure, and death. As if the world full of colours had frozen and the artist were expecting something to happen.
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