[1] Snakes depicts a disc made up of interlocking circles that grow progressively smaller towards the center and towards the edge.

The use of snakes and the color palette of this composition recalls an earlier woodcut by the artist, Möbius Strip I (1960).

[2] The print has rotational symmetry of order 3, comprising a single wedge-shaped image repeated three times in a circle.

Close inspection reveals the central mark left by the pin.

In several earlier works Escher explored the limits of infinitesimal size and infinite number, for example the Circle Limit series, by actually carrying through the rendering of smaller and smaller figures to the smallest possible sizes.