an illustration of mr. dob amid thrumming energy and swirling forms by takashi murakami, solarized version of himself, with a large black smile that beams out of the shimmering background, a collage of multicolor starbursts and biomorphic forms vibrate against the white of his face, one of mr. dob’s eyes is a hypnotic spiral of pale pink and white, while in the other, a series of concentric circles pulsate, vivid tentacles radiate from his face which is orbited by smaller cartoon monsters: miniscule dobs, mushrooms and kaikai and kiki, a dark planet or death star, a raving and chaotic creature, at full stride, achieving a painterly spectacle of technical precision and cinematic bombast that has virtually no peer or precedent