Dance Me To The End Of Intimacy - Original Painting

Unofficial Collaboration with Jack Vettriano
31x35" Framed
Original Only
 
In the original, Jack Vettriano gave us a romantic scene: a couple wrapped in their own moment, bathed in moonlight. It’s nostalgic, cinematic, and beautifully timeless.
But in today’s world, love doesn’t live in moonlight — it lives in the glow of a screen. It's tracked, measured, and monetized. Every swipe, every text, every vulnerable moment becomes data — fed into systems that want to sell us connection without ever letting us truly have it.
By placing tinfoil hats on these figures, I’m not mocking them. I’m protecting them. It’s a symbol of resistance — of shielding oneself from the invisible influence of big tech, advertising algorithms, and surveillance culture that preys on our deepest desires.
The drones hovering overhead aren’t just machines — they’re metaphors for the constant watchers: our phones, our social feeds, our search histories. The things that know who we’re attracted to before we do. That track the rise and fall of a relationship through patterns of interaction.
In this version of the painting, love is still possible — but only if it's defiant.
Only if it resists the gaze.
That’s the tragedy and the beauty here. The couple still dances, still holds each other. But now, doing so takes courage. Real intimacy requires rebellion. To remain pure, love must now exist outside the systems built to exploit it.
So this is not just a surreal remix. It's a question: What does it mean to love in a world where privacy is performative and even our most sacred moments can be turned into content?
Can we still dance like no one’s watching... when someone always is?