A Box of Candy by etchingroom1 (Mini Kus! #130)

A Box of Candy examines the roller-coaster of emotions we can experience as love captures us, evolves, fades, aches, and hopefully recurs (as the small glimmer of hope at the end would suggest). What I appreciated the most about this work was the verisimilitude of being handmade. The art is rendered in a way that suggests the effects of things like letters being cut out, replacements being taped back in, crayon or chalk-like textures to the colors, collage, or even light decoupage, along with interesting line perspectives and camera placements that give the narrative a very personal, almost voyeuristic touch. I guess love is akin to a box of candy; it can be sweet, but not always ultimately fulfilling. Like an infamous man once said to the delight of millions when consuming a box of sweets, “you never know what you’re going to get.”