One of the most enchanting small works in the entire collection — a miniature watercolor on paper with gently rounded corners that suggest it may have been cut from a larger sheet or was made on a pre-shaped paper. The composition shows a horizontal procession of elongated figurative forms moving from left to right — creatures somewhere between figures, plants, and sea creatures, in three distinct color groups that transform across the composition.
At left, three vivid green figures with raised arms and red circular heads — the most explicitly upright and humanoid of the forms, their green legs tapering to points. At center, the forms transition through blue: first a group of fully saturated blue figures taller and more elongated than the green ones, with small yellow or blue circular heads; then a group of slightly paler blue forms beside them, some still with visible heads. At right, the forms continue their color progression into near-black — dark blue-black elongated forms with small pink and blue head-marks, the most abstracted and least figurative of the series.
The color progression — from vivid green through saturated blue through dark near-black — suggests evolution, transformation, or passage: figures becoming shadows, creatures becoming abstract marks, life becoming something else. The rounded corners of the paper give the whole composition the quality of a vignette, a glimpse of a world rather than a complete world.
The irregular paper edges, the small scale, and the fluid confidence of the execution suggest this may be a spontaneous work — Sidney painting quickly on whatever paper was at hand, catching an idea before it disappeared. These are often the most alive works in any artist's output.