This painting explores the relationship between women and machines, with imagery drawn from advertising and pin-up magazines of the time. Hamilton said ‘This relationship of woman and appliances is a fundamental theme of our culture; as obsessive and archetypal as the Western movie gun duel’.

The background of the painting is an open fridge. The woman, partly derived from an image in Esquire magazine, is a composite, suggested by one eye, breasts, shoulder and domestic apron. In the foreground is a hybrid toaster/vacuum-cleaner. As you move, the eye winks.