The painful contortion in political space: the word is translated formally through the sharp, almost painful separation of the red core from the dominating green surroundings. The picture carries the feeling of working through a loss, of overcoming, of the laborious digestion of a political reality. A deeply emotional, burning conflict or a heavy ideological defeat (the dense red) is not pushed away but fought out in isolation, in the middle of a wide, unrelentingly dominant political system (the green). It is the visual equivalent of the inner writhing in which a hard lump must be swallowed and worked through within oneself.