Handfinished Blondie - Heart of Glass - Rapture of Gossamer wings stencil

Handfinished 4 colour screenprint with stencil layer

Signed 1/1

330gsm Fedrigoni paper

70 x 75cm

Pure Evil explains that a chance email from a Chinese “copy village” gave impetus to his “Nightmare Series.” The village offered, via email, a list of artists it could reproduce, including three small jpeg images of Andy Warhol paintings. Warhol’s entire artistic output has been distilled right down to three small 64 x64 pixel thumbnails of Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor and an Electric Chair and this became the inspiration for a series of 'Nightmares' : doomed and dripping celebrity portraits. Why are they crying ? “Its an illustration of the heartbreak and sadness we have all experienced in relationships in the past.”

"We are consumers. We're the by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables - slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need . . .

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war . . .

Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off . . . "

TYLER DURDEN 1999