Reese's Candy Girl, 2024
Acrylic on laser engraved wood
15x24cm
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When Mel Ramos created ‘Reese’s Rose’ it reflected the pop art obsession with merging consumer products with voluptuous women. In my homage to Ramos, I’ve considered the three elements: woman,...
When Mel Ramos created ‘Reese’s Rose’ it reflected the pop art obsession with merging consumer products with voluptuous women. In my homage to Ramos, I’ve considered the three elements: woman, candy wrapper, AED as reflecting aspects of society. In the same way that a chocolate bar wrapper is easy to toss away women’s lives are being thrown away because another product, the defibrillator, is not being unwrapped.