In Parachute a parachute has jettisoned from an aeroplane which disappears off the top side of the painting. The parachute opens beautifully with a scalloped edge like a perfect shell or open flower-form. From the parachute hangs a large white amorphous bundle, as if something is trying to escape from it. The bundle is being dropped amongst a thronging herd of deer in the foreground, which stampede trying to escape. Five deer are clearly seen; one is coloured lilac, one green and one rose-pink and two are sand-coloured, perhaps suggesting the colour of the land as seen from the aeroplane. The sharp, bisected antlers of the deer and other unseen deer behind, point diagonally backwards, like stylised antennae or branches of a tree. Their dark, empty eyes create a rhythm of shape in the foreground.

Whatever is being dropped into the throng of empty-eyed deer it makes them panic and we wonder what is this thing that is going to so shake up the status quo.