Pop Me
4 x 3'
Charcrylic
 
A reclining male figure stretches across a dense field of red poppies, his body rendered in mercurial grayscale. At first glance the form appears classical, even idealized—but on closer inspection it slips. The torso holds extra muscles, a subtle disfiguration that reveals itself only with attention.
 
The poppies surrounding him carry the weight of intoxication and dependency, their red repetition echoing sensory excess. Set against them, the human body becomes another site of consumption—sex and drugs mirrored as parallel appetites, each capable of pleasure, escape, and compulsion.
 
Pop Me suggests how attraction can quietly tip into addiction. What initially seduces through beauty and sensation begins to ask for more than it gives, leaving behind a form that is altered, overstimulated, and difficult to look away from.