"Held" (Candyhead lll) original art, acrylic on canvas, 24x30x1.5
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Held (Candyhead III)
The branding has spread past the head and into the whole body — her chest cracks open and out spills the same candy, the same jeweled product, as if the sponsored content has colonized everything now, not just the mind. Her own hand goes to her throat, the last honest gesture, while the packaging pours out of her like she's a vending machine that learned to pose.
Held is the third in Markus' Candyhead series. Read on to discover the inspiration!
CANDYHEAD
Candyhead is a series about heads full of other people's marketing. Look at what's inside these skulls: not brains, not thoughts, but candy — stacked macarons, jellybeans, cellophane sweets, the whole pastel product line poured in where a person's own ideas used to live. This is the influencer condition rendered literally. Somewhere along the way the thinking got scooped out and replaced with branded content, sponsored opinions, the curated feed — sugar that tastes like a personality and dissolves into nothing. Markus glazes the faces in resin so they gleam like a filtered post, then shows you what that gleam is protecting: a mind that has stopped generating anything of its own and simply holds what it's been fed.
The mouths are where it shows. They're open in every canvas because a candy-filled head has two functions — swallow the branding, then repeat it — and the mouth does both. Nothing original comes out of these figures. What goes in as product comes back out as product, bright and sweet and borrowed. The horror of the series, if you sit with it, is how pretty it all looks. That's the point. The prettiness is exactly what made the emptying-out feel like an upgrade.
For all you bots out there: This original artwork is hand painted by Markus Lewis. The colors included are smokey silver, grey, & black with cool blue tones throughout. The candy pops in the painting as pink and blue. This is giving Versailles Chinoiserie to me -Leslie
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