This painting portrays Jahaj Mahal (Ship Palace) built by Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din-Khilji around the year 1450 AD in Mandavgarh near Indore in India. Its architecture is an amalgam of Afghan, Mughal, Hindu and Mesopotamian styles. Created around this beautiful monument is a dreamy, surrealistic garden of Silk Cotton tree, showing off its large flashy red flowers and its cotton pods floating in sky like boats. A bird in the sky-about to fly out-imparts life into the work. The pond of the monument has the flowers imaginatively floating in the water.