€45.00
The surrounding shapes feel playful and inflated, almost toy-like, but the figure inside carries a darker intensity. Its grin, exposed structure, and wide eye suggest awareness, tension, and survival instinct. It feels like the hidden self looking out from behind the colourful machinery of personality.
The palette creates a strong contrast between softness and threat. Pink, teal, orange, and black curve around one another like protective layers, while teeth, eyes, and claw-like fragments interrupt the surface. The piece feels both humorous and uneasy — a cartoon shell wrapped around something more raw.
This artwork explores the strange relationship between inner identity and outer expression. It suggests that beneath playfulness, performance, and colour, there is often a watchful passenger: the part of the self that remembers, adapts, and keeps looking outward from deep inside the mask.
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 6.5 oz./yd.² (220.4 g/m²)
• Oversized fit
• Trendy vintage look
Starts every piece with automatic drawing and lets it become abstract surrealism. Architecture that shouldn't hold together, mapping what sits under ordinary perception.
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