"Time Twisting" is inspired by the works of William Blake. Blake describes two kinds of machinery, representing two different concepts of time. The first is "the creative time of Eden" which is the rhythmic time of natural order. The second is the mechanical time of the industrial revolution. Time set wheel to wheel which with their teeth, under force, set each other tyrannically in motion. Intertwined, they represent the simultaneity of all events.

The surface is built up with many thin layers of oil glazes and drawings in ink. The process is reminiscent of palimpsest (from the Greek palimpsestos ('scraped again') often seen in illuminated manuscripts. A palimpsest is reused writing support material from which the underlying text has been erased (by washing in the case of papyrus and by using pumice or other scraping devices in the case of parchment). Erasure was not always complete and an underlying text would often bleed through.