Good news, freaks: The guy who made the Bug's Life Fleshlight is back with one shaped like Shrek's ear
Last year, when pandemic lockdowns were still fairly new, an artist named Malek Lazri heaped fresh psychic horror onto a world already drowning in more than enough of it by creating and selling a Fleshlight modelled on the caterpillar from A Bug’s Life. In the time since unveiling his first boundary-breaking masturbation accessory nightmare, Lazri has continued to produce further work that lies at the intersection of pop art and psychological warfare.
Vice caught up with Lazri to hear about a year that’s seen his catalog expand to include the greasy-toed “Cindarelli Ugly Stepsister Glass Slippa Footjob Fleshlight,” the nauseating “Rata-Tool-Y (Chefs Kiss) Remy/Linguine,” the “Mrs. Incrediball Stuck Stepmom W/ Fabulous Dump-Truck Elastic Action,” and, the shining puke-emerald in this rough field of despair, the “Shreek Slughole,” which is a cartoon ogre’s ear in a green fuck-case wrapped in a little brown vest.
Lazri says he “just figured it was [his] duty to keep giving people what they wanted” after his Bug’s Life creation “was such a big hit.” With help from an airbrush artist and tailor, he’s continued summoning items from the void like a version of Larry The Cable Guy’s Cars’ car whose buck-toothed mouth can be penetrated by the most daring of buyers. In one of his rare, non-cartoon items, Lazri has also created the beer-themed “Fister’s Can Crusher,” which is advertised with the tagline: “Throw ur lil shrimp in the barbie!”
He says the Jessica Rabbit Fleshlight, a surrealist collection of body parts slapped onto a tube outfitted with a red sequin dress, is his favorite—his “low-key crush”—though “none of them are really sexual to me.” Rather, the work is “more about like, a continuation of merchandising, which is already absurd, and this just happens to be the most absurd juxtaposition of a character and an object.”
To witness more of these absurd juxtapositions for yourself, head on over to Lazri’s Instagram page. He has such sights to show you.
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