JW Rocks

Originally inspired while going on “lockdown walks”, I noticed a lot of these painted rocks popping up throughout my neighbourhood, I thought it would be funny to add my own take and place them throughout my walks. Half started as a joke, I ended up really enjoying the process and made more batches to sell or leave around Calgary.

I designed some packaging for these little dudes and worked with the Gaptooth Sweatsuit team again to screenprint custom boxes, a nod to the original “Pet Rocks” from the 70’s. Ive dialed in my process, some of the original rocks are a little more red (sunburnt). I’ve probbaly made close to 100 rocks now. I got the chance to show them in the Surface, Surface group show at Herringer Kiss Gallery which was pretty funny and surreal. Such a silly project, started half a joke, and displaying them in a legit gallery was a fun contrast