"Shed Your Skin" – Available On SuperRare
"Shed Your Skin" is a tapestry of storytelling and symbolism, woven with hope and defiance. I am Surreal24seven, born in the vibrant pulse of New York City, where its rhythmic energy and beauty shaped my soul. But life shattered when my father’s factory - our family’s livelihood - was violently seized by thieves in Guatemala. Stranded, I survived on $2 an hour working in a hostel, confined to a cockroach-infested room the size of a closet, its faint WiFi my only lifeline. For six years, I didn’t leave that windowless space, strangers drifting past like shadows. There, in isolation, art became my rebellion - a surreal cry against a world that tried to break me.
"Shed Your Skin" mirrors my story in a woman whose skin bears butterfly and caterpillar tattoos - each etched line a wound of survival, a map of rebirth. She sits in a glass box, echoing my years of seclusion, her laptop casting a soft glow of plans for a new life in Chicago. Suitcases beneath her pulse with the promise of that move - a chapter yet to unfold. A cat on her lap, fierce and untamed, embodies the spirit that defies confinement.
Outside, a restless street hums with strange, unfamiliar faces - a world I’ll need time to navigate after years alone. Billboards flare with surreal visions - snakes coiling into new forms, butterflies weaving a woman’s dress, their vivid imagery murmuring transformation, urging her onward. Above, a vast starry sky unfurls, its shimmering expanse a beacon of hope beyond her walls.
A surreal anthem, echoing the relentless fight to reclaim one’s life and hope - for those rebuilding from ruin. It’s about confinement, yes - but more about escape. "Shed Your Skin" reminds us: even in the darkest box, transformation is possible. And sometimes, that spark of change is all we need to begin again!!!!
No one looks up from their phone anymore. We live inside our screens until something finally snaps us out of them. In the artwork, that “something” is a surreal woman dropping small glowing orbs from the sky, giving a gentle cosmic shove that forces a couple to glance up at the same moment and actually see each other. It’s a love letter and a warning wrapped into one.