I've been expecting you by Jonathan Yeo

"I’ve been expecting you" is a reimagining of one of Jonathan Yeo’s iconic collage works from his 2010 Los Angeles exhibition “Porn in the USA”. The portrait (of actor Sean Connery in character as fictional British secret agent James Bond) was made up of clippings from vintage porn magazines to playfully reference the dated moralities and objectification of women in the series.

Yeo dates his interest in film art and design back to a childhood fascination with those otherwise stylish 007 movies of the 1960s, which were elevated by the contributions of some of the greatest artists of the era, including legendary designer Ken Adam, composer John Barry, and innovative title designer Maurice Binder. Binder’s sequences were mini caricatures of the movies themselves: dazzling combinations of stills and footage of the actors with animated elements, usually involving guns, explosions and dancing girls, which continually pushed the boundaries of visual technology at the time.

This unique NFT piece digitally reimagines the Bond collage, Yeo’s playful “homage” to 1960s culture, in a dramatic style that is heavily reminiscent of those great early masters of movie design and VFX.

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