On the visceral border; landscape

The pieces that the MUSA holds belong to a stage in which Birks worked under the echoes of German romanticism. The painting shows the ghostly figure of a man carrying a suitcase, within the scene of a mountainous landscape. Two large heads can be seen against the light, while a river divides up the space. It could be a self-referential quote regarding the crossing of the Rio Grande and its arrival to Mexican lands.

The artist plays with certain nostalgic humor by suggesting with the title that someone is in a conflict: on a visceral border, to later deny the emotional suggestion through two grammatical points that clarify that it is only a landscape.