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The work has been arranged as a stack of pottery, vertically up the painting. Each individual piece of crockery has an individual shape, perhaps suggesting at the human individual. The jugs and plates are compacted closely together, with no interruption or view through. The only gaps are filled with black. The proportion of the painting is distorted, as it is unclear whether the pottery is piled up high, or the viewer is looking from above. This distortion evokes a feeling of confusion to perspectives, as Caulfield only subtly hints that they get smaller into the distance. The colour scheme employed is varied across the spectrum, to create a bright miscellany and diversity. No colour predominates another, but all are painted with equal significance. There is