Running Man

This piece was inspired by a local coffee shop, www.slowbyslow.com. It was custom illustrated, then CNC carved out of MDF and sealed in a high-gloss emergency yellow before being collaged with fragments from old magazines.

The surface is packed with borrowed language: ads, headlines, faces, urgency. Bits of ambition and pressure sit right next to quieter, more honest lines like “I want to enjoy LIFE”—which feels especially wild knowing it came from a vintage LIFE magazine ad. That contrast is the whole point. The hustle and the longing exist at the same time, whether we admit it or not.

Running Man holds all of that in one shape: motion, motivation, noise, and the desire to slow down without actually stopping. It’s a one-of-one original, loosely inspired by Slow by Slow Coffee and the idea that maybe the real trick is learning how to move fast without losing yourself in the process. Ironically, it starts with slowing down.