Beberapa kerumitan berkait dengan lukisan ini.

Kerumitan pertama, yang bersifat naif, ialah soalan samada insan yang terpapar dalam lukisan ini ialah "burung" ataupun "anjing". Dia berupa (sebahagian) burung, namun pertuturannya bersifat anjing. Kerumitan identiti ini timbul bukan sahaja dalam isu spesies, tetapi juga umur, merujuk kepada gambar "furry shota" yang menunjukkan individu bawah umur disertai komentar menyatakan ia sudah dewasa.

Kerumitan kedua, yang lebih penting, ialah soalan samada insan tersebut bersifat manusia, haiwan atau tumbuhan (ataupun kesemuanya). Walaupun kepalanya berupa burung, badannya berbentuk manusia, dan walaupun "BARK" dikaitkan dengan salakan anjing, ia adalah perkataan manusia. "BARK" tidak sama sifatnya dengan "WOOF", kerana anjing tidak mengatakan "BARK". Secara serentak, "BARK" juga membawa maksud "kulit kayu pokok" dan ini menimbulkan pencampuran unsur tumbuh-tumbuhan ke dalam perkara lukisan ini (di samping motif pada bajunya).

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A few problems are related to this drawing.

The first problem, a naive one, is the question of whether the person in the drawing is a "bird" or a "dog". He looks (partly) birdlike, but his speech is doglike in nature. This problem of identity occurs not only in the issue of species, but also age, as such a "furry shota" picture shows an underaged individual along with commentary saying that s/he is an adult.

The second problem, a more important one, is the question of whether the person is a human, animal or plant (or all of them). Though his head is of a bird, his body is a human, and though "BARK" is related to the barking of a dog, it is a human word. "BARK" is fundamentally different from "WOOF", since a dog will not utter "BARK". Simultaneously, "BARK" means the skin of a tree and introduces the element of plant life into the drawing's subject (aside from the patterns on his shirt).

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I have been voraciously eating up literature on Magritte and the Surrealist movement, and seem to be in a meditative and analytical mood. This is possibly the first of a few "problem pictures".

Thanks also to  pearbear, since this was actually inspired by something he doodled.