Medium: Mixed media on reclaimed cardboard (crayons, Sharpie markers, and digital AI manipulation)
Time spent: ~3 months
Sugar Baby is a fictional character depicting an infant equine trapped inside the wounded body of an adult, consumed by a relentless addiction to sugar.
An exploration of decay, memory, and the fusion between the analog and the synthetic. This piece was born physically on a piece of mended cardboard, rescued and bearing previous scars. Over three months, I built the textures layer by layer using the dense wax of crayons and the vibrant ink of multiple Sharpies.
Once the physical artwork was finished and photographed, I brought the record into a digital environment to manipulate it with artificial intelligence. The goal was to inject details of decaying organic matter that seem to sprout directly from the cardboard, creating an unsettling contrast between the human mark, the precarious surface, and the hyper-realistic, rotten texture generated by algorithms. It is a piece where the old, the handmade, and the digital contaminate one another. YUSAYMON 2026
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