Bal Harbour Village Beach

Jon-Paul Wheatley started making soccer balls during lockdown in St. Louis, teaching himself leatherworking from scratch after his tech startup collapsed. He's since designed balls for Adidas, FIFA, and Burberry, and two of his designs appeared on the cover of EA Sports FC 25. His studio, 12 Pentagons, is built around one premise: the soccer ball as a design object. Fresh off a run at Bal Harbour Shops, his Badly Drawn Ball concept moves to Bal Harbour Village Beach at monumental scale — a 50-panel, irregularly constructed ball built from over 5,000 community submissions of people trying, and largely failing, to draw a soccer ball from memory. The most common mistakes, pentagons touching and warped panels, were distilled into a single 3D object. On view through July 27 with the Atlantic as its backdrop.