"Beauty in squalor?"

I think this is a disturbing image, not because its a legless man standing on his head in a wasteland, but because its somehow, i dont know why, such a voyeuristic image. The painter seems devoid of character, no... not character, because i think there is a distinct style there. And style is a carrier of character. But it's devoid of understanding. Now i may be way off here because i am the painter, but trying to look at this from an outside perspective, it strikes me that i wouldn't understand why the painter decided to depict a legless man, why a legless man instead of just an ordinary man, i dont think i would understand  his motives, and wouldnt be sure if the painter was sympathetic to such a person, or treating it as some sort of freakshow/shock tactic thing.

With the idea of Chekov's gun in mind, that everything represented is expected to mean something, it would confuse me looking at this, because i wouldnt know what it meant. So let me tell you that this is the 3rd attempt to paint this. The first two (i think they're uploaded below) have legs, the 2nd attempt was a lot brighter, it was disorienting the amount of colours that were used, there was no let up, no 'brown' (see entry below). Then i thought i'd add some brown, and it seemed to work, i wiped out the legs, corrected the face and arm (although the arm is still not right), and changed the background. The blue jumper i just thought worked lovely, so i left it, it remains the only thing unchanged. And then i had a go at the body, intending to do the legs as well, but once i'd painted this torso it just struck me that i should just leave it like that. Not a moral or allegorical decision, just an aesthetic one. Take from that what you will.