This work of EGHNĀ is a canvas painting that fuses the codes of street art with a popular culture icon, here provocatively reworked. It features a stylized and fragmented representation of Mickey Mouse, whose face is covered in graffiti, paint drips, and scribbled texts evoking the urban and rebellious world of graffiti.
The color palette is dominated by black, white, gray, and red. The chaotic, saturated background combines mist effects, broad brushstrokes, splashes, and red drips, reminiscent of bloodstains. Inscriptions like "BRONX," "vandal," and illegible graffiti add a protest and underground dimension to the whole.
The character's attitude, though humorously hinted at by his wide smile, seems almost menacing or cynical, reinforced by jarring elements like the white X-shaped stitching across his lower face. Hastily scribbled hearts sit alongside more aggressive messages, creating a contrast between the character's supposed innocence and the raw world around him.
The work seems to question the place of mass culture in contemporary art, while paying homage to the aesthetic of New York graffiti of the 1980s and 1990s. It evokes a form of desacralization of the Disney myth in favor of a free, raw, almost anarchic expression.