Inspired by an iconic image of Prince performing live on the cover of his 'Let's go Crazy' single, this work reflects on the growing habit of viewing concerts through mobile phones.  In the painting, the images on the screen appear clearer than the figure on stage, symbolising how technology distorts and diminishes the immediacy of live experience.  Purple Ruin critiques the compulsion to record rather than simply be present, questioning what is lost when awe is replaced by documentation
 
Original Oil Painting
By Pau Bacchus (PB Fine Arts)
 
Oil on stretched canvass, 60.5cm x 81cm x 2cm