As Johnny Thornton recounts, "I was given a grant by The Polaroid Corporation to produce some images I gained my influence from the paintings by Paul Delvaux, Magritte and the Los Angeles pool paints by David Hockney. As I say, "I don't take photographs, I make photographs", so the wall was constructed over a swimming pool in a naturist indoor pool in Wrotham Heath in Kent. Then a scaffold was built to span the pool and wall which would support me. So I was uncomfortably positioned shooting straight down, had the flash lighting fallen into the pool, the model, Nicky Howarth Dwek would be "Brown Dead"."