True Blue

TRUE BLUE
There was a moment, somewhere in the mid-eighties, when a kid could walk into a room carrying a boom box on their shoulder and the entire atmosphere changed.
Not because of the music — before the music even started. Because of the object itself. Heavy, chrome and plastic, covered in buttons and dials that communicated serious intent, the boom box was the most powerful portable technology most people had ever held. It democratised sound. It brought the party to the park, the beach, the street corner. It said: wherever I am, this is where the music is.
For an entire generation growing up in Spain — in Europe, across the world — the eighties arrived through a boom box. And through the music that came out of it, one voice above all others shaped what that decade sounded like, felt like, meant. Madonna understood something about colour, about image, about the relationship between pop music and visual culture that the decade was only beginning to discover. True Blue — the album, the title track, the aesthetic of that era — was not just music. It was a way of being alive in a particular moment, vivid and unashamed and entirely itself.
True Blue the painting is a love letter to all of it.
A pink boom box on an electric blue ground, built with washi tape and Posca markers and spray paint and stickers — the materials of an artist whose visual language was shaped by the same era the painting celebrates. The colours are not nostalgic. They are as vivid now as they were then, because some things don't fade — they just wait for someone to remember them properly.
This is that memory. Still playing.
30.5 × 30.5 cm · Acrylic, spray paint, washi tape, Posca markers and stickers on canvas panel · 2021 · One of a kind Unframed. Signed on the front and signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.