Takashi Murakami: Davy Jones’ Tear Nancy Spector Marie-Thérèse Walter

Marie-Thérèse Walter

and Tsong-zung Chang

in conjunction with the exhibition Sterling Ruby: | at Gagosian

In Desperado (Blue Car) (2021)

Takashi Murakami: Davy Jones’ Tear Nancy Spector Marie-Thérèse WalterDavy Jones Tear, 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