As Johnny Thornton recounts, "This was a shot I did all for myself at my home in Chelsea. I used both a SX70 Polaroid and my Hasselblad and Ektachrome. The model was Alex Argent. The make-up and hair were done by William Norman for whom I had shot a business card of a red lipstick pierced with a bobby pin, so he owed me a favour. The plinth came from a shoot and I saw the composition as a pastiche of the Art Deco style lamps made by Lalique featuring porcelain heads. I decided the head in my version would be a real one. We painted the model's hair silver and rigged a flashlight into the lampshade. This picture is in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas."