What we have are a pair of posters, seemingly unconnected at first and (apart from the fact that they are colour printed) both very different in style. The first deals with an artistic metaphor for a confused, messed up life, although whether some of the great abstract expressionists would agree that the picture in the background is actually a mess is a bit of a moot point, however as far as the poster goes, it doesn't know much about art, but it knows what it likes and it likes pictures that look like things. So, it's a mess, but it is not too messed up for salvation, whatever anyone else might think...
The second poster has a much simpler design, although a more complicated subject, featuring as it does one of Mr. Rubik's famous cubes. This time there is a bit of a clash between the definitively 80s subject matter and the simple, clean-cut 1960s style of the poster itself.
Of course what I did when faced with the Rubik's cube (and I am old enough to remember them first time round) was buy a copy of the book of instructions and work it out from that, rather than get on the 'phone to Erno Rubik himself, as the poster suggests I should. Although that also, I suppose, acts as a suitable metaphorical response to life that is equally applicable in this context.
So, two different posters, just combined together through chance or co-incidence, or a deliberate pairing. At first they seem unconnected, until you realise that they form a diptych of dilemma - reflecting both inner and outer confusion, microcosm and macrocosm, both ultimately with the same solution.
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