"For this piece, I used ultraviolet-reactive wool, threads and fabrics and lit the piece on all 4 sides with slim uv tubes hidden in the black acrylic frame. This produces a really stunning glowy effect and, of coures, the piece looks completely different with the tubes switched off (as you can see in the 2 images above).

"The uv concept was originally based on an idea I had for the decor in nightclubs and is inspired by the ambience of Slinky, the hard dance/hard house superclub which I regularly go to in Bournemouth.

"I started with some rose-type flowers but, noticing the burning effect that the light produces with the pink/red fibres - and following the now over-hyped Valentine’s Day - I decided that the title of the piece could be a bit more subversive about the flower images."