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This print is based on the British conceptual artist Helen CHADWICK's One Flesh (1985), a collage of photocopied paper, now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. One Flesh represents a madonna-like figure, a female child and a placenta in a collage of photocopies from life. The woman, Paula, was a friend and neighbour and had just given birth to a baby girl with the late artist Genesis P-Orridge. She holds the baby and the placenta, with the umbilical cord hovering above her head as some profane subversive halo.

The first woman to be nomiated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 1987, Helen CHADWICK embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the 'normal' and 'traditional' in art historical pedagogy. Considered a 'mother' to the YBAs through her teaching posts at the Royal College of Art, Chelsea School of Art and the London Institute, her experiments with material were innovative and unconventional and captured a world in a state of flux.