If you come across a woman lying atop a billboard or a man stretched out under a row of newspaper stands, you've either just found a distressed human or an (inhuman) original work of art. Glazed Paradise creates human and animal shapes that look part sculpture, part performance art in freeze-frame. Using tape, polyethylene, and casting skills, Mark Jenkins and Sandra Fernandez wrap and shape bodily figures, position them in sometimes-overlooked public places, and let both charm and alarm take over. For example, look for the figure kneeling outside a shop window, or the girl with her head in her hands lying on top of a highway billboard.

Glazed Paradise has been building bodily figures since Fernandez and Jenkins started working together nine years ago. The accessibility of their work makes for perfect street art, but it's the startling elements (the positions, places, and props) that give viewers an extra jolt. "We like to manipulate reality," Fernandez tells Creators , "so to get close to that, we start with real things like people and animals to get our foot in the door of your head. Then from there we smear a little."