Peter Charuk was inspired to create this work by the words from a Leonard Cohen song, ‘Suzanne’ and his own connection to water and the ocean, being a keen surfer with an interest in underwater photography. He describes how he settled on the format: “I have an interest in children’s books, both historical and contemporary, and the way that they are engineered, such as pop-up books. This was a motivation for how the book was made so that it could be presented in a number of scenarios; you could turn the pages like a conventional book or you could display it as a piece of sculpture using the concertina effect to hold it up.”