This painting is characteristic of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's work since the 1970s, consisting of a play of geometric shapes, primarily circles, placed on a rectangular canvas. The geometric pattern and strong colours interact with each other in ways that explore their formal qualities. Barns-Graham added the titles of her images after they were completed to reflect her feelings while working, rather than restricting herself to a particular idea before starting a painting. Without taking the title too illustratively, we can view the blue discs as individuals within a flock, moving across the canvas. They seem to swoop from an ordered formation into chaos, before reforming as a compromised sense of composure on the right. The artist's early paintings were entirely figurative, but throughout her long career she gradually became more abstract in style.