ABOUT THE WORK

Piss on Me

Digital Airbrush , 2026

In Piss on Me, Felix Pear stages an absurd and deliberately provocative encounter through the visual language of surreal cartoon imagery. A pair of oversized blue feet looms above a mushroom-like figure, while vivid green liquid descends across its expressive face. The exaggerated forms, glossy modelling, and stark white background lend the composition the artificial clarity of digital illustration, contrasting with the work’s bodily humour and grotesque undertones. Pear draws on the tension between cartoonish playfulness and adult provocation, transforming an uncomfortable subject into a strange visual spectacle. The work reflects his broader interest in the subconscious, where taboo impulses and absurd fantasies become characters within an irreverent, unsettling world.

FEATURED ARTIST 06:

Felix Pear

ARTWORK TITLE: 'Piss on me'
Year: 2026

Medium: Digital airbrush, 6000 × 6000 cm

Felix Pear is an illustrator, animator, and clothing designer from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, whose practice explores the strange and often chaotic terrain of the subconscious. Through surreal characters, exaggerated forms, and absurd visual scenarios, Pear transforms internal thoughts and emotions into images that oscillate between humour, discomfort, and vulnerability. His work occupies an unusual space where the playful becomes unsettling and the familiar gives way to the psychologically strange.

Drawing on the visual language of early-2000s pop-culture cartoons, Pear employs lo-fi aesthetics, expressive figures, exaggerated gestures, and nostalgic colour palettes to construct worlds that feel at once recognisable and distorted. Beneath their cartoon-like surfaces, these images engage with questions of identity, self-perception, insecurity, sexuality, and the unpredictable relationship between conscious thought and subconscious impulse.

Central to Pear’s practice is the tension between childhood visual culture and adult experience. By reworking the aesthetics of cartoons through a distinctly mature perspective, he uses the language of nostalgia to approach subjects that are intimate, uncomfortable, or difficult to articulate. Emotions become creatures, anxieties assume physical form, and private thoughts unfold as surreal encounters. The resulting imagery makes complex psychological experiences tangible without relinquishing their ambiguity.

Pear’s work embraces absurdity as both a visual strategy and a means of self-exploration. Humour becomes a way to approach vulnerability, while grotesque transformations and unexpected juxtapositions challenge the boundaries between attraction and repulsion, innocence and experience, and the ridiculous and the deeply personal. Through this distinctive fusion of cartoon nostalgia and surreal introspection, Pear constructs an artistic world in which the subconscious is given a vivid, unruly, and often disarming visual form.

SONIC VISION 05:

Artist: DIMITRIOS KARATZIOS

Year: 2026

Musician: Sweater on Polo

Song-Album:"Almighty Grand Essence" · L.I.E.S. Records ·

“House Rockin Dream” is a playful acid house track by the producer Sweater on Polo , released in 2026 on one of the best underground labels around, L.I.E.S. Records (Long Island Electrical Systems) from New York. It’s the eighth song on the debut LP, Almighty Grand Essence.

It takes you to a dark, sweaty dance floor, 1988, New York or Chicago, a Monday night around 3 o’clock. The music is slowing down, but it’s still playful enough for everybody to lose themselves completely in the dance and the House Rockin Dream.

Raw house sound, for you to feel the origin story.

Now LOOK,

The cover artwork for Almighty Grand Essence is credited to DIMITRIOS KARATZIOS The illustration feels like a psychedelic comic pulled from another dimension: a cat dressed as a wizard, rockets flying across the scene, factories pumping smoke into the sky and a city engulfed in flames. At the top of the stairs, a speaker sits almost like a sacred object, turning music itself into something worth worshipping.

There’s a deliberate clash between the playful cartoon style and the chaotic, almost apocalyptic imagery. It captures the rebellious, slightly absurd spirit of underground dance music. where fantasy, noise and the dance floor all collide. The artwork doesn’t try to look polished or futuristic. It feels raw, hand-drawn and full of character, just like the kind of house music that invites you to forget the outside world for a while.

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