The photo, by Hipgnosis photographer Peter Christopherson, was taken down town in New York on a cold and windy day, a couple of blocks away from where Peter Gabriel would later buy an apartment. The 2D/3D concept was a recurring theme for Hipgnosis studios at the time. Here, Peter is thrusting his hands out of the picture and back onto the photo surface, scratching it into strips.

Peter recalls, “The artwork was done with Hipgnosis. We did this in New York and it was cold and snowy. Storm had had the idea of the nails tearing away at the paper of the image."

Hipgnosis simply glued strips of torn paper on to the original monotone image and used Tippex to ‘tart up the joins’.

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