Her candies lay the foundations of her compositions, much as Jasper Johns’ alphabets or numbers. They structure her canvases abstractly, freeing her to meditate on content. As Richard Hamilton, Robert Watts and Claes Oldenburg also used candies as subject and she often enlarges scale tenfold like a billboard, Kurt's work early on became associated with Pop Art. The scale of Pop Art opened Kurt’s eyes to the possibility of a new vision based on objects instead of landscape.