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Around The Block places the viewer inside the perspective of a bug, transforming an ordinary rose into an enormous landscape of desire, attraction, and uncertainty.
At the center of the composition, three roses create a visual love triangle. One of the Paper People moves through this world beneath an oversized eye, caught between attraction and observation. What might appear beautiful from a distance becomes something entirely different when experienced from below: larger, stranger, and more consuming.
The work continues the mythology of the Paper People: figures born from scrapped potential who exist between civilization and chaos. They transcend race, culture, emotion, and expectation. Though human in form, they are not bound by society's definitions or stereotypes. They are undefined, unrestricted, and free to write their own destiny.
Here, that freedom collides with one of the most human experiences of all: love and the complications that come with it.
The title Around The Block references the idea of making another trip around familiar territory: the streets, relationships, choices, and situations we somehow find ourselves returning to. It also nods to the cultural language of 2Pac and his iconic All Eyez on Me era, bringing themes of street life, love, loyalty, observation, and repetition into the visual world of the Paper People.
Seen from the perspective of a bug, the roses become more than flowers. They become a world of their own: beautiful, dangerous, and impossible to navigate without getting caught in the thorns.
Three roses. One complicated situation. Another trip around the block.
Around The Block is an expressive contemporary artwork exploring love, perspective, desire, observation, relationships, and the complicated paths people take when emotions refuse to stay simple.
Around The Block places the viewer inside the perspective of a bug, transforming an ordinary rose into an enormous landscape of desire, attraction, and uncertainty.
At the center of the composition, three roses create a visual love triangle. One of the Paper People moves through this world beneath an oversized eye, caught between attraction and observation. What might appear beautiful from a distance becomes something entirely different when experienced from below: larger, stranger, and more consuming.
The work continues the mythology of the Paper People: figures born from scrapped potential who exist between civilization and chaos. They transcend race, culture, emotion, and expectation. Though human in form, they are not bound by society's definitions or stereotypes. They are undefined, unrestricted, and free to write their own destiny.
Here, that freedom collides with one of the most human experiences of all: love and the complications that come with it.
The title Around The Block references the idea of making another trip around familiar territory: the streets, relationships, choices, and situations we somehow find ourselves returning to. It also nods to the cultural language of 2Pac and his iconic All Eyez on Me era, bringing themes of street life, love, loyalty, observation, and repetition into the visual world of the Paper People.
Seen from the perspective of a bug, the roses become more than flowers. They become a world of their own: beautiful, dangerous, and impossible to navigate without getting caught in the thorns.
Three roses. One complicated situation. Another trip around the block.
Around The Block is an expressive contemporary artwork exploring love, perspective, desire, observation, relationships, and the complicated paths people take when emotions refuse to stay simple.