WANTS

Wants centers on a single candy heart, enlarged to disorienting scale. The familiar becomes unfamiliar—its pitted surface, its imperfect lettering, its saccharine promise revealed as both intimate and artificial. Drawing from childhood memories of longing and shyness, the work amplifies desire through visual distortion. The oversized treatment mirrors the emotional weight we assign to small gestures and fleeting words. By reframing a mass-produced object of affection, I Want You asks what happens when sentiment is magnified—how sweetness can be both comforting and quietly unsettling.