The horse dominates the image, stretched across the upper half with a lowered head and a thick, ribbed mane. The acrylic painting uses flattened planes, dark outlines, and a mottled grey surface that looks rubbed, speckled, and scraped in places, while the canvas title The Chronology of Human Instincts points to a deliberate, symbolic structure. Two human figures sit and recline beneath the animal, their angular faces turned away from each other as arms, legs, and torso lines lock into a compact knot. One figure stands at the left edge. Another leans across the center in a red drape. So the placement feels compressed and architectural, with the bodies filling nearly the whole frame and only pockets of black ground and leafy plants opening around them. Ochre fills the background in a broad flat field, the figures stay cold in blue grey and stone white, and the red cloth cuts through the middle with the strongest contrast because it sits directly under the pale horse.