The artist: 'On a visit to Edinburgh to see an old friend who works at the Royal Botanic Garden, I came across the most unusual flower in one of their greenhouses. Titan Arum is it’s Latin name, and it is the largest flower in the world and only blooms once every 5-10 years and it opens its flowers at night and releases the most foul odour of rotting corpse (hence the name). I was enchanted by the idea of this dormant monster. The seductive horror of the plant reaffirms my awe of the natural world including the chaotic dysfunction of organic matter in the human body, as I have lived with a debilitating intestinal disease since I was 13. Due to my disease and background in modern languages and literature studies, I am naturally drawn to the macabre and gothic works of the late 19th early 20th century, as well as hammer horror, surrealists, David Lynch and European cinema. The Corpse Flower unites all of those things in one grotesque beauty.'