Life Inside the Desert Palace

A desert palace of nine arched rooms in three rows, each devoted to a different part of the sands. Top left, a robed man shows a boy a telescope. In the middle, two people dig for small desert creatures. On the right, a couple in robes talk on a sofa by an oasis painting. Middle left, an old man points out a mirror showing a blue castle. In the centre, two dancing cacti with pink flowers perform on an orange rug. At right, a scholar reads a huge book beside a camel under a wall of footprints. Bottom left, a woman at a round desk with an hourglass faces a sand route map. In the middle, a worker and a goggled flier shovel pink sand, and at the right, scientists study a blue underground river. Pink sand above and the blue river below set two strong colours against each other, so the palace settles together from the bottom up.