The female nude body is a recurring motif in Heinecken’s work. This piece was produced during a “Happening”—a term coined by the artist Allan Kaprow in the late 1950s for improvised, often-participatory performances—that Heinecken organized in the early 1960s: “I hired five models, rented five 35mm cameras, got three or four projectors, produced a bunch of slides from encyclopedia, etc., gave the camera to the models and set the projectors going automatically and they wandered around in these images photographing themselves. I collected the film, had it processed and made a set of prints from this experience.” By putting his cameras in the hands of others and allowing chance and performance not only to be captured on film, but to determine what was captured, Heinecken called into question traditional ideas of authorship.