Typoe's Latest Work Balances Childlike Wonder With the Macabre

In an in-depth feature for Miami New Times, writer Carolina del Busto profiles TYPOE ahead of his second solo show at Primary, "Living Form Dying Ground," featuring 27 new works.

The article reveals that TYPOE retreated to his studio for eight months, producing hundreds of doodles and stream-of-consciousness designs that inspired the final works. The show's largest piece, measuring 52 by 72 inches, took more than 1,000 hours to complete.

TYPOE discussed his choice of materials: "The sculptures are made out of wood, referencing the wooden blocks we'd play with as kids. And the paintings are made with pencils because that's what I used when I was a child. I am just approaching it in a different way than when I was a child."

On his creative process for this body of work: "Nothing is pre-drawn, nothing is predetermined. I just start kind of building this world. As I'm doing this, I'm thinking about the world around me, and I start flowing and creating shapes, trying to get lost inside of that world and then seeing what comes out."

The article also explores his fascination with what gets left behind. "A theme park was once a fun place, full of life and energy. But what happens once we're gone? It starts getting overgrown, there's vandalism, and then it becomes a whole new host of things, almost like a dead world."