All right — I’ll bite — what real life image are we looking here???
I think it was meant to be used as a Rorschach Test.
When I saw one of his paintings, it was of a bridge over some sort of water garden. I had an instantaneous flash of the actual water garden in my mind, I dont know how or why- it was so strong and vivid it nearly knocked me over.
Quite an amazing experience- it was if I was instantaneously transported there and saw the actual thing, and transported back (in like a half a second)