The Phoenix is reborn from the ashes of the past. Some parts of his body and plumage had already formed, while others are just been emerging. This process of eternal restoration of the new is contrasted with the dead ruins of the once great civilizations of the past, in the ruins and crevices of which someone still lives.
Technically, the picture combines a number of seemingly incompatible color and stylistic solutions that harmoniously coexist on a black and gray background.