Reese's Candy Girl, 2024
Acrylic on laser engraved wood
15x24cm
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.