Dexter Wynn · No. 100

The Cassette

The Cassette monumentalises a small, obsolete relic of the mixtape age. Dexter Wynn renders a single audio cassette in flat primary colour, its twin reels and blank paper label flattened into bold Pop graphic against a humming halftone field. The object is humble, even forgotten, which is exactly why it earns its place at heroic scale: Pop has always found its icons among the disposable, the mass-produced, the things a culture overlooks precisely because there are so many of them. Yet there is unusual tenderness in this treatment. The cassette was never just storage; it was a vessel for devotion, the handmade mixtape an act of love, a careful arrangement of songs offered from one person to another. Wynn's clean, affectionate rendering honours that emotional charge without ever tipping into sentiment, holding the cool surface of Pop over a warm and very human memory. The bold colour and crisp outline give the artefact the punch of packaging design; the blank label seems to invite a name, a dedication, a track-list. Nostalgic but not maudlin, graphic but never cold, it turns a piece of dead technology into a bright, confident emblem of analogue feeling — the sound of devotion, made visible.

An original oil painting on canvas by Dexter Wynn, painted to order — never a reproduction. Pop-art icons in flat primary colour, Ben-Day dots and bold black outlines — everyday objects and bright portraits with a comic-book punch.

Artist

Dexter Wynn

Medium

Oil on canvas

Finish

Unframed, ready to hang or frame

Made

To order, by hand