The title refers to Isotonik, the moniker for DJ Chris Paul who is cited with bringing acid house to the masses in the UK in the 1990s. 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 1940s work, ‘Thistles and Sun’ by Graham Sutherland. 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 delicately textured paint. The pattern is from a ‘Shrine flag (‘alam or nishan)’ from Uttar Pradesh, c.1896-1910, which Hayward sourced from the tome, ‘The Fabric of India’ ed. Rosmary Crill (2015).