i-D magazine and Stella DRY used to run art & design competitions, I entered two years in a row and was a winner on both occasions. I wrote to Terry Jones at i-D saying, ‘You seem to like what I do, so gizza job’ – a few months later he did.

The competition brief on both occasions was 'Express the word DRY'. The mouth/cactus was reproduced as a fifteen foot banner in dayglow paint and was displayed at Stella sponsored events.