Avedon got the idea of photographing a man covered with bees from Laura Wilson’s son, Andrew, who had seen a man in his class with a beard of bees. Soon after, Dick woke one morning from a half-conscious state and drew a picture of a man swarmed by bees. In the days that followed, about 40 pictures came in the mail, and then a Polaroid arrived of a man with an extraordinary face. A note was attached: "I probably don’t look right for what you want, but I would like to do it." The note was signed, "Ronald Fisher.