quotes from one of Wilhelm Von Gloeden's most famous images:

The model on the left is one of Von Gloeden's favourites, Pasquale from Taormina, and this fact makes it possible to date the image to Von Gloeden's stay in Naples in 1897/1898.

Firrell crops the image to give greater prominence to the buttocks of the two youths on the left of the original picture. The rich pink and red re-colouring also emphasises the resemblance of the young men’s buttocks to plums, peaches or cherries.

Von Gloeden's images of nude Sicilian men usually featured props such as wreaths or amphoras to suggest Ancient Greece or Rome. plays on this reputation for classicism, evoking the ancient Greeks’ acceptance of physical relationships between men as something inherently valuable and far from unusual.

In an earlier prototype, Firrell co-opted an image from the work of American photographer Walter Kundzicz (1925-2016). Under the name Kundzicz created and marketed homoerotic images of 'bad boys next door'. The prototype features an advertising image of Jim Stryker by Walter Kundzicz from magazine Volume 1 No. 3, Winter 1964.