The mask joins many things—earth, sky and sea, and it shows a person's relation to other beings—in fact, it is a composition of seal, human, fish, and bird. “Finding relations among discordant things,” Mr. Siegel said in a lecture on Hieronymus Bosch, “has been an instinct; it has also been a method in tendency to these combinations does exist, and present day art is in the midst of that tendency: to make the world even more coherent by being more audacious and finding that in discord there isn’t as much discord as one thought at firsta desire of man is to put some harmony into.
