Along with the other guests that Lee Miller and her husband Roland Penrose hosted regularly at their home in the Sussex countryside, the Chilean artist Roberto Matta was ‘put to work’ . Miller’s wry essay ‘Working Guests’, published by Vogue in 1953, describes how her guests - the ‘who’s who’ of the art world at the time - carried out chores around the house and on the farm with care and delight. Explaining that the ‘the city slickers with only a window box and dreams of a garden are the easiest victims: potting, pricking out, pinching off and puddling are all poetic words to them.’ Other images of Matta on this roll of film show him carrying a ladder around the farm. He is captured here at a recreational moment with a book.