When making this sculpture, Mark Dunhill (born 1952) did not want to make a female nude in the traditional sense. Built up of several layers of small pieces of wood, it took him a very long time to make. During an interview in 2003 Dunhill explained it was originally going to have a partner version, the opposite of this shape. He was teaching art at the time and 'was very critical of the idea of the model, a naked woman standing in the middle of the floor, lots of people standing around and her taking up a sort of contrapostal pose'. He asked the model to take off her clothes but then put on as many layers of clothes as possible, and then take them off again. Students 'had to consider this proposition if you like, about a body, a woman in this case, revealing herself, exposing herself and then concealing herself'.