As an art student, Robert worked on a collage of a Cooney Island rollercoaster surrounded by ads and billboards. The artists saw modern cities as over-hyped places of amusement, as amusement parks run amuck. He has added two new features to his earlier study: the dancing couple and the arcade booth with its sign displaying the four trump cards. Here Robert juggles four different metaphors for love: love is a dance, love is fantastic and possibly monstrous, love is as changeable as the weather and finally love is a game of chance. In the left-hand margin, Robert has drawn a mask-like head that spits out a gummy cloud. This is the personification of Wind, blowing clouds across the sky, a device often seen in antique maps and old engravings. The cloud edges into the large composition on the left and starts to obscure the lovers’ faces. The obscured faces is an idea that Robert follows up in subsequent studies and in the finished painting with use of an umbrella as a mask.