Personal illustration, September 2007. Some students at a high school where I was giving a speech recently asked me: 'Why did you choose those colours?' but I was too shy to say 'well, actually I was infatuated at the time..'

Some of the text is quite funny: 'No ethnic hang-ups' (which I did have at the time), 'Fabu-less Commercial Illustration'... I wouldn't say I was smashed, but a cocktail or two of an evening was very normal at that time.