The title refers to 808 State who are an English electronic group formed in Manchester in 1987, their early work was a prominent influence on the UK’s burgeoning acid house scene. The bottom left part of the painting has two rectangles with cut out chevrons, the unusual fragment nods to the avant-garde movement of vorticism. In this area of painterly flourish, Hayward reimagines a 1943 work, ‘Wittenham Clumps’ by Paul Nash. The painting depicts a view in Oxford that Nash repeatedly painted to show a mystical landscape rich in symbolism. In Hayward’s own versions of quintessential British landscapes, the small scale and great level of detail speaks to his training in Indo-Persian miniature painting. Emulating embroidery, the bottom right section is a textural patterning referencing a Suzani fabric from Uzbekistan.