Fun facts about the concepts building this piece:

* Background color is my favorite color lipstick from high school (Revlon Fuschia Fusion) and was spray painted oil base paint.
* Sour balls are the quintessential hard candy. They rule. They also have a weird shape that is hard to paint!
* At a friend's place where I spent quite a lot of time in my early LA years this Baccarat crystal tiger guarded the living atop a stack of designer photo books.
*This entire series used more paint than previous collections because I wanted the colors to be super vivid.
* While I knew this piece was nostalgia driven, it took a hard turn into 80s when I used an opalescent paint to outline the paper images on the canvas. I wanted the images to have a movement, and these are a real tip of the brush to Keith Haring.
* This is the first pop art collection I've done