The heads of a man and woman seem to be made from a single strip of paper that forms every other band of their faces in this surreal, horizonal lithograph, printed in tones of gray and black on cream colored paper. The looping paper connects at the tops of the heads and the bottom of the necks, so it seems to be one long strip. The bands overlap at the forehead to connect the two people. The woman is to our left, her wavy hair parted in the middle and pulled back. To our right, the man has a mustache and beard, and short hair. On the bands making up their faces, we see their eyes, the bottom of their noses, and their closed lips. The area inside the spiraling bands is empty, and we look onto the smooth inner surfaces of the strips on the far side of the heads. Dozens of spheres float within, around, and behind the pair against an inky black background. In the bottom right corner of the printed area, block letters “MCE” are conjoined to make a rectangle under the numerals “IV-’56.” The artist signed and numbered the print under the image in the bottom left corner, “MCEscher No. 16/40.”