This "Jolly Raver" design is one of several in a series of mine I call "Ripped Visions." Each ripped vision is based on popular imagery and taken to be totally recreated into another meaning. This concept of redefining highly public visible images originates at least as far back as Andy Warhol's 1962 "Campbell's Soup Can" prints. However, in these modern days the youth of America is constantly bombarded by the media with senseless corporate advertising. Some young artists have reclaimed certain promoted commercial art further than Warhol did by transforming them into symbolic icons. This was a trend in the early 1990's within mostly the electronic dance sub-culture, and I considered myself to have been a part of this art movement.