Artist duo Scarlet and Jessen, better known as Paperlarva, are life partners whose shared imagination fuels an insanely amazing body of work. Their visual language is deeply shaped by childhood anime, early internet art culture (from the deviantArt era), and the layered identities of their FilAm and ABC New Jersey upbringings.

Blending pop-cultural nostalgia with personal symbolism, Paperlarva’s work explores intimacy, memory, and the quiet emotional undercurrents of growing up between worlds. Their figures often inhabit soft, symbolic spaces where innocence meets melancholy and sweetness brushes against strangeness. Through delicate linework and narrative subtlety, Scarlet and Jessen construct a shared mythology—one rooted in partnership, cultural hybridity, and the lingering magic of formative influences.