Inoutscape is one of a series of large canvases, more than 2 metres high, that Town began to produce in 1960. The composition has an architectonic framework: the structure—of black, white, blue, and red framing elements—suggests components of a composition by Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) that is being pushed out to the sides.

Town’s reference to Mondrian introduces a theme that became central to his art in the 1960s: the deliberate contrast between order and spontaneity, between technical perfection and the eruptions of chance.