The creation of "6 Piccadillies" was inspired by the Piccadilly postcard collection of Rita Donagh, the companion of British artist (and Roth collaborator) Richard Hamilton. Roth bought his own postcard of Piccadilly Circus and had German printers Staib + Mayer enlarge and offset print the image onto both sides of six laminated cards. (An offset color lithograph of this postcard image appears on the side of the cardboard case, rendered as a suitcase.) Roth varied and transformed each of these offset images by screenprinting over them. The artist challenged the printing expertise of Hans-Peter Haas through his desire to embrace chance effects and employ unusual materials and processes. (For example, they used inks mixed with iron filings, or inks that repelled one another.) The resulting works are not only a technical tour de force in printing but also a playful evocation of the shifting atmosphere of one of London’s busiest intersections, be it enveloped in fog, set aglow in neon, or shrouded in darkness.