MAYO has created a series of humorous, radical collages based on the iconic Playboy magazine. Replacing its expected erotic imagery with mushrooms, found objects, organic forms, and surreal compositions, he subverts ideas of desire, beauty, and visual consumption.

Balancing irony with cultural critique, the works transform the familiar magazine cover into a space for ambiguity and playful experimentation. As MAYO remarks, "Beauty is a woman with a big knife," capturing the tension between attraction and disruption that defines the series.

Through collage and visual displacement, the Playboy series explores the idea of homo ludens — the playing human — revealing how cultural images can be dismantled, reimagined, and given new meaning.