Mom, Can I Have a Quarter? turns the familiar childhood gumball machine into a small monument to wanting, waiting, and simple joy. Set against notebook lines and loose drips of color, the bright red machine recalls the moment when twenty five cents felt like enough to get exactly what you wanted. The piece looks back at childhood through an adult lens, capturing the nostalgia of a time when happiness could be colorful, immediate, and dispensed one quarter at a time.
