As I was photographing the Acepella singing group, Fine City Chorus, I noticed the fire escape/stairs in a recess of a building opposite. I was at the Royal Norfolk Show 2025. The people on the stairs were judges (and a photographer), and they were going up to the first floor viewing room which overlooked the Grand Ring/Main Arena. I managed two photos, in which time the people were in different stages of ascent. I collaged the two images. I put the man and woman on the bottom step (they were in a different place), and merged them with the second photograph, which had the four at the top,…are you keeping up so far? The woman at the bottom is the same person proceeding through the door, top left. I wanted to change the brick wall behind them, so I cut that all away…a long job, and replaced it with the peeling paint (not to scale!) which features in another picture in Surreal – Pealing Paint. I applied a filter to soften the image. The title makes sense in the end!