The composition has subliminal meanings as Gujral frequently uses tools, animals, and people in his artwork as he seeks to strike a balance between nostalgia for the past and the prospect of the future. Here, the human figure has a hold of the horse strap, perhaps trying to ride it as well as control it. Gujral uses leather, a symbol of the modern world, to create the idiom of energy. These elements, according to him, are the markers of interdependence and interrelationship between man and machine in the modern world.