hard candy

Hard Candy plays with the double meanings embedded in everyday language and objects. At the center of each image is a Tootsie Pop—innocent, iconic, and vaguely suggestive—paired with brief, mischievous text. The result is a visual pun: playful, pointed, and deliberately open to interpretation. Like a double entendre, the work operates in layers—what’s visible, what’s implied, and what the viewer brings to it. It’s not about being risqué, but about how meaning is made. As the series suggests: “I’m not making this perverted—you are.”