“Through the early forties Pollock’s drawings had moved toward more freely inventive biomorphic form and greater unity of morphologically inventive creatures. In this drawing the composition is given over to a highly fantasized figurescape in which it is difficult to distinguish human from animal forms or plants from creatures, as Pollock introduces the scintillation of nervous spatters, coloristic linear accents, and an overlay of abstract linear patterning (the sgraffito) – the essential invention of his visual field – to bury the underlying figures.”