Sugar Coated constructs a world where desire, nostalgia, and excess crystallize into landscapes both seductive and unsettling. Entirely built by hand — piped, poured, sculpted, and assembled — the environments mimic the glossy perfection of digital renderings, revealing the slippage between the real and the simulated. The result is a hyperreal terrain where childhood fantasies bloom into scenes of slow collapse.

The immersive installation begins with softness: pink, plush carpet underfoot, sweet aromas in the air, clouds of pastel color, and forests made from gumdrops, whipped cream, melted candy, and cereal rubble. At first glance, the settings shimmer with confectionary innocence. Yet each tableau carries a fault line: a chocolate bunny sinking into its own sugary ground; lollipop hearts slumped and bleeding into pools of syrup; extravagant candy forests dissolving under an invisible heat. Even the cereal landscape — bright marshmallows embedded in mounds of processed grain — suggests ecological drift, industrial excess, and the sedimentation of consumer culture.

At the center of the installation is a large-scale video projection, a cyclical, atmospheric work in which these crafted worlds begin to breathe, shift, and decay. Free of dialogue, the video becomes a hypnotic loop of seduction and dissolution, echoing the rhythms of appetite and exhaustion. It evokes the compulsive feedback loops of contemporary life — shopping, scrolling, consuming — where small bursts of dopamine produce temporary pleasure before tipping into overwhelm. In this oscillation between delight and depletion, the landscapes behave like metaphorical nervous systems, forever chasing the next hit of sweetness.

Sugar Coated exposes the hidden cost of manufactured happiness, revealing how desire can curdle into saturation and how pleasure, once mass-produced, becomes a trap. The landscapes are idyllically beautiful, but their beauty is uneasy, always on the verge of collapse. In this tension lies the work’s power: an invitation to wander through a fantasy that is as enchanting as it is impossible to sustain — a mirror held up to the cycles of consumption that define contemporary life: swipe, scroll, buy, discard, repeat.