Goo · Sonic Youth · cover art by Raymond Pettibon · DGC, 1990
The art print state, stripped of the show details. Single panel, sunglasses, the leaning figure behind, the lettered caption box, a ruled title bar across the top and the apology still under it.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
Research from the archive. Quoted material is reproduced verbatim, and every voice is labelled.
Once upon a time there was a troubled boy named 'Kurt' who met an insane machine who chewed him up and spit him out. This image was influenced by one of Jermaine's heroes, Raymond Pettibon, and his seminal artwork for the Sonic Youth album, 'Goo'. Another pop-culture 'hi-jacking'.
