Two friends, both wearing glasses, face one another as they ponder choices about their future. Behind them stretches a city street. Beneath the thumbnail sketches, Robert writes: “The dichotomy of commitment–pleasure. Two friends discuss career and love, travel and settling down, routine and freedom. The Conversation.” The sketch on the left shows a city street in the background with buildings and figures. The sketch on the right eliminates the buildings and makes the background figures more symbolic of the subjects the friends are discussing: a businessman, a woman, and a distant airplane. The numbers drawn in the margin of the page represent time displayed on a digital clock, the final element Robert will add to the finished image.