This work has a pictorial quality that blends archaic sensibility with contemporary style. The scene – two felines immersed in lush, stylised vegetation – presents itself as a narrative fragment suspended between fairy tale and myth. There is no naturalistic intent: the animals’ bodies are flat, rendered with soft, simplified lines, while the decorative nature of the plants is reminiscent of both Persian and Indian art and the taste for ornamentation typical of the modernist avant-garde.

The expressive ambiguity is striking: the felines seem to be both playing and fighting, in a tension that never completely dissipates. The atmosphere is not dramatic, but neither is it peaceful; rather, it seems to be a symbolic representation of the duality – eros and aggression, harmony and conflict – inscribed in natural rhythms.

From a compositional point of view, the verticality of the palm trees frames and organises the scene, while the dense foliage creates an ornamental fabric that envelops the bodies. The choice of warm, light tones for the leopards, in contrast to the dark green of the background, creates an almost luminous effect, as if the figures were emerging from the vegetation in a sort of apparition.

In short, this painting works on a poetic register that combines a fascination with exotic and archaic iconography with an intimate vision of nature as a theatre of primordial energies, poised between play and survival. It is a work that seduces precisely because of its suspended dimension, which is more evocative than descriptive.