Cotton Candy

Second place winner of the 'Identity' exhibition, Collie art gallery, Western Australia, March 2018

Artist statement: 

The sweet, alluring prettiness of cotton candy for the masses with an aura of self-image obsession.

A carefully constructed identity fixated on looking good and counting likes.

Fading reality and authentic expression by the intoxication of social media, possessions and wealth.

The emptiness of expectation, the pressure of perfection, the confusion of fact and fantasy and the end of conversation.

Individual identity hushed in a haze of fluffy stuff.