Here, against green, purple, and grey mountains and a medium-blue sky, a confrontation takes place between the jutting, industrial cylinders in the foreground and the ethereal, organic shapes that appear to almost float behind them. Brooker was attempting to “recreate the intricate polyphony of the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel’s Messiah.” The painting seeks to take its viewer into the landscape of intuition and imagination, a sphere that exists beyond the material world and that transcends ordinary space and time.