One of six works by the artist commissioned by the Welsh Arts Council for the exhibition 'The Fall' which opened at the Oriel in April 1976 and toured to Bangor Art Gallery, the Museum and Art Gallery, Newport and the Glynn Vivian Museum and Art Gallery, Swansea. The artists commissioned for 'The Fall' - Mervyn Baldwin, Paul Bowen, Ian Grainger, Will Lorimer, Chris Orr and Gwyn Watkins - were challenged to provide a series of illustrations to specific biblical passages relating to the story of Adam and Eve
A half-naked woman stands in a barrel with her hands bound behind her back and a blindfold across her eyes. She wears an odd, injurious metal contraption across her chest and metal clasps around her thighs which are attached by wires to two poles on either side of her. Her hair is also attached to the two poles, preventing her from moving. Above her head is a bucket that is dripping and her discarded high heels stand in front of the barrel. The room she is in is very ordinary and has a clock above the door and a filing cabinet to the right of the door.