The fall is a symbol of romantic heroism, the tragic victim’s descent from a point of idealism. These figures are more pathetic than that, they lack the genuine aspiration to have reached a point from which to have fallen. They lack to ability to of had a dramatic narrative.

Instead they squirm and dance around stages which read as beds. They are performing some excessive act of mourning, a melodramatic cry for attention. They are vacuous figures who merely have the desire for the grand themes of figurative art and humanity.

As such the figures and the architecture search for tension and instability. Created by the two fold play on space they reveal the artificiality of painting.

Dismissing this reading they also seem to be about the ‘lovers discourse’ discussed by Barthes; the single figure excessively mourning the absent other.