The Creative Mind Screen print Companion has been part of

Companion has been part of music album cover

and especially with earlier depictions of arhats that continue to haunt the cultural imagination behind Murakami’s wider visual world

while foregrounding the image's deliberate two-dimensionality

hand signed by Takashi Murakami

and the figure oscillates between comic familiarity and something much more unstable

The Creative Mind Screen print Companion has been part ofOffset lithograph with cold stamp and high gloss varnishing on paper. This print is hand signed and numbered by Takashi Murakami in silver pen from a limited edition of 300 copies. Published by Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd, Japan. The Creative Mind feels less like a portrait of invention than like an image produced from inside invention itself. Kaikai and Kiki appear here in an unusually unsettled state, and that sense of comic excess gives the print much of