This ongoing triptych plays with the idea of fructose as a visual state. Fructose sugar is often weaponised by contemporary food production - desired for it’s sweet, pleasurable, and stimulation of dopamine pathways . In the same way, these works embrace a maximalist aesthetic that pushes into pleasure, saturation and excess.

Each composition functions as a dose of visual fructose: an interplay of hue, symbolism, and ornament stimulate the eye to the point of overconsumption. The images overwhelm in their potency, embodying the contradictions of fructose itself. Irresistible yet nauseating, alluring yet hollow, it mirrors a culture of consumption that justifies addiction and short-term gratification.

Structured as a timeline, each piece metabolises this eye candy. The first work captures the rich euphoria of youth - wanderlust, pop culture and abundance. The second transitions into adulthood, where sweetness becomes a token: botanicals, luck, and hierarchy merge into symbols of cultivated pleasure and constraint. The final piece enters a darker tone, where technology, spiritual imagery, and countercultural forms produce an aftertaste of the cosmos, death, and the occult.

Collectively, this series articulates a cycle: from naïve sweetness to commodified pleasure, into destabilised excess. They are as sickly as fructose — overwhelming the senses, intoxicatingly commodified and short-lived in its consumption. This is symptomatic of a culture obsessed with an abundant synthesis of imagery.

FRUCTOSE

Kaleidoscopic Bloom, 2022, Acrylic, Alcohol Marker, Ink on Paper,Economic Boom, Acrylic, Alcohol Marker and Ink on Paper, 420 x 297mm 420 x 297mm

Economic Boom, 2023, Acrylic, Alcohol Marker and Ink on Paper, 420 x 297mm