2024

Wood, Cardboard, Foam

122cm x 90cm x 55cm

Cheeto Legs began as a playful thought: what if a Cheeto—a bright orange, puffed snack born entirely from industrial production—suddenly developed legs and tried to walk?

The sculpture imagines this absurd transformation as both humorous and unsettling. Constructed from wood, wire, and painted surfaces, the piece resembles a creature caught between the edible and the animate. The orange, organic forms echo the texture of processed snacks—fragile, hollow, and irregular—while the wooden legs and wheels suggest a clumsy attempt at mobility.

Through this hybrid body, Cheeto legs explores the porous boundary between the artificial and the living. It treats mutation not as failure, but as curiosity—as an instinctive desire for movement, growth, or becoming. By giving “life” to something so overtly artificial, the work questions how contemporary culture manufactures both pleasure and existence: how even synthetic matter can seem to yearn for vitality.

Playful yet melancholic, Cheeto legs transforms a symbol of overconsumption into a fragile being that wobbles between humor and pathos. It stands as a small act of reanimation, where something once made to be consumed begins, instead, to live.