Part of the ongoing Rubbish Series, this sculptural work began as a discarded cobblestone — found debris from the street. By recontextualizing it, Pattern Boy shifts its meaning: from overlooked fragment to vibrant cultural artifact.
Cobblestones are meant to interlock — to form paths, patterns, systems. Here, that logic becomes visual. The surface is covered in multicolored puzzle-like glyphs, echoing both digital language and ancient symbology. The layers wrap around the form like memory embedded in the material.
This piece is about assemblage and fragmentation: the way we walk over history without noticing, the way cities are built from what came before. Brightly painted but rough and heavy at its core, Cobblestone I becomes both a celebration of urban matter and a reflection on what we choose to discard.
It asks a simple question: What if trash is already part of the map?
approx 15 x10 cm, cobblestone, primer, acrylic, varnish