This work depicts Kcho's signature motif of stacked boats rising as a vertical column — four hulls of varying scale balanced one above the other against a loosely washed sky and shoreline in blue, orange, and red — recalling the artist's Columna Infinita series, itself a reference to Brancusi's Endless Column recast through the precarious vessels Cubans have used to attempt passage off the island. For Kcho, boats consistently function as vehicles of departure, loss, and unfulfilled utopia rather than romantic seafaring imagery; here the impossible, overturned tower of small craft suggests both the fragility of the structure and the larger improbability of escape itself. Loosely sketched figures gather at the base on either side, watching the monument of departure rather than embarking upon it, while the nervous, calligraphic line is characteristic of Kcho's works on paper, in which the iconography of his large-scale sculptural columns is distilled into a more immediate, gestural register.