In the words of the artist’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, “Acid proved to be a trigger for intense artistic expression for Shane, both musically and visually. He often took acid on tour and he would always carry paints and pastels as well as felt pens to experiment with. On a tour of New Zealand, having also taken a lot of very strong speed, he happened to have a lot of blue paint, and he painted all of the walls of his hotel room, and all of the soft furnishings and even his own naked body. At the time, he had become quite obsessed with squids and octopuses and he would frequently draw both, often writing phrases to accompany the drawings. While drawing Squid Pro Quo with pastels, Shane created a shape by ripping up the paper to make a sort of figure with legs, and being an admirer of Kandinsky, he chose to sign it ‘Wassily Kandinsky’."