 The image depicts the world with a back turned to Europe, which is absent from the painting.The work is composed in ink, pencil, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper and measures .When exhibiting this work along with alternate versions and sketches, the University of Pennsylvania summarized the work as a "bird's-eye view of the city from Ninth Avenue in a straight line westward, with space becoming ever more condensed..." They also described the work as a tongue-in-cheek view of the world.