Robert Wagners Nightmare - Don't mess with the Yakut

Stencil spray paint on double-sided Yakult sign from the Shōwa era, Japan
55 × 55 × 0.5 cm
2019
Unique piece – there can only be ONE.

Naboo: “Don’t mess with the occult.”
Vince: “I thought it was good for you. You know, good for your digestion.”
Naboo: “That’s Yakult.”
Vince: “Oh, right…”

Pure Evil explains that a chance email from a Chinese “copy village” gave the impetus for his Nightmare Series. The village offered, via email, a list of artists it could reproduce – including three Andy Warhol paintings. The idea that Warhol’s entire artistic output could be distilled down to three tiny 64 × 64 pixel thumbnails of Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor, and an Electric Chair became the inspiration for these doomed and dripping celebrity portraits.

Why are they crying?
“It’s an illustration of the heartbreak and sadness (and possible murder) we have all experienced in past relationships.”