When hump day comes around again… This peculiar pair—a smoking, bespectacled leaf, no less, and its equally anthropomorphic chewing gum pal—are the work of Italian artist Agnese Guido. Guido draws on everything from underground comics to Medieval art to inspire her wonderfully absurd world of inanimate objects brought to life. “They are addictive objects, and they can appear as threatening and vulnerable at the same time,” the artist explained of her esoteric characters in an interview with Louise Benson for Elephant. “They express the idea of what is good and what is bad for people.”
