Tasty Space - SOLD

Joy is not frivolous. Pleasure is not a distraction. In a world that demands we shrink, harden, comply…choosing sweetness, color, and abundance can be its own kind of refusal.

Title: Tasty Space

Year: 2022

Acrylic on Canvas

4ft x 5ft

This painting is part of my ongoing series of oversized, glittering still lifes—food scaled up until it becomes monumental. A donut becomes a symbol: of appetite, of indulgence, of taking up space.

The things we’re told are unserious—sprinkles, frosting, softness, delight—are often the very things that keep us human. They are coded as feminine, trivial, excessive. I want to treat them as worthy of reverence.

Here, sweetness isn’t decoration. It’s declaration.

A reminder that joy can be defiant. That beauty can be bold. That pleasure is something we can choose, even when the world feels determined to harden us.