Takashi Murakami: Dumb Compass IntoUniversity as well as black-and-white photographs

as well as black-and-white photographs of the artist in his Paris studio

in which the artist depicts locales of removed isolation and anchors his figures in relation to a source of light

juxtaposed with a pink pattern in the artist’s trademark expressive style

tries to give the statement a significant form

” is based on interviews with subjects about their experiences modeling for Avedon

Takashi Murakami: Dumb Compass IntoUniversity as well as black-and-white photographsDumb Compass, a limited edition screen print by Takashi Murakami, belongs to a set of three prints derived from a scene in Gore Verbinskis 2006 adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest in which octopean villain Davy Jones plays an organ with his tentacles. Abstracting comprehensively from this already curious incident, Murakami pictures an amoebic figure eight shape atop a ground of colorful Benday dots and expressive drips and spills.