This is a depiction of Bacon coming to terms with the death of his beloved. The painting uses a lot of blacks to express the painter’s feelings of grief, remorse, and loneliness. Their love is also full of entanglement and confusion and ends in tragedy. The blurred forms of the carved faces also represent his attempts to balance realism and abstraction. The works throughout the exhibition, whether shouting or distorted, are Bacon’s inner self. The misfortunes of his teenage years and his later difficult life have made him feel the world’s pain in his eyes. This is why he sees ‘distortion’ as ‘hurt.’