Maquette for Visitor is the working model for the artist’s monumental head, Visitor I, exhibited at Chatsworth in 2010. Its tactile surface reveals his fingerprints greatly enlarged to imply ‘that a higher power has constructed and placed this unearthly figure in this suffocated position’. It relates closely to Breuer-Weil’s Philosopher paintings, which also feature a large head. Of these works, the artist has stated that he wanted to express ‘the immense potential power of thought … This work is a visual embodiment of thought. Every human being is largely hidden and secret.’