This work presents a commercially produced lollipop encapsulated in epoxy resin, irreversibly suspending its intended function. The process arrests all chemical, sensory, and temporal transformations associated with consumption. Although the wooden stick protrudes from the resin and preserves the formal interface of use, handling and tasting are structurally impossible.
The addition of a mirrored, kitsch display element introduces the visual language of retail and luxury presentation. The object is elevated, reflected, and multiplied, aligning it with mechanisms of commodification and display. At the same time, this logic collapses: the object is presented as consumable while being fundamentally unusable.
In Heideggerian terms, the work stages a displacement from Zuhandenheit (readiness-to-hand) toward a paradoxical condition of excessive presentation. The lollipop is no longer ready-to-hand, nor simply present-at-hand, but continuously exhibited as an object of desire without access. Its being is revealed precisely through the suspension of use.