We are not afforded the usual consolations of surrealism in this unsettling conjoined portrait. Instead the viewer is thrust into an unflinching monochrome vision of a partitioned consciousness.

The primary figure inclines his neck downwards with a faint touch of malevolence in his pupilless gaze - or perhaps a trance or contemplation. The lushly drawn beard cascades down the lower centre. There is a coming together of velvet and stone in its execution: a static dynamism. An ornate broach in the lower right reinforces the antiquarian millieu.

The second head emerges from the crown of the first. The features are less proportional, still forming as if from a metallurgic substrate. The pyramidical nose has a sail like shape and the left eye project upwards. The hair has a lobed coral texture and the mouth slightly ajar. There is anguish and striving in the expression. Atop a laurel or other headgear.

In sharp contrast the charcoal horns apparently piercing or emanating from the two heads dominate the right side. Ridged in places there is a palpable bestiality mitigated by the refinement of the curvature.

The Minotaur of legend is himself a tragedy within a tragedy. A hybrid human bull conceived through divine retribution with a taste for flesh. Imprisoned in a vast maze until his slaying by an Athenian prince.

The viewer is welcome to take the Freudian slip road to observe a multi-planed conflict between order and animal chaos, age and youth, heroism and villainy.