Even though black-and-white photographs like Citizen take Wall a week or a month to shoot, the result appears spontaneous. Wall has said of this work: 'Citizen corresponds to something that is in the very nature of photography. Because it’s a photograph, what it depicts is instant; it represents a very brief moment – a split second. It is a moment of instant peace; it may vanish from one moment to the next'. As with most of Wall's work, the photograph relates directly to the scale of the viewer's body. We seem to be placed on the fringes of the park, at the bottom of the picture, a device that encourages us to feel both physically and almost voyeuristically involved.