Sweet Things

By Ashley Miller

The still life series was photographed in a studio, captured on film, and printed in a color darkroom. Owing to their careful arrangements, the images take a stab at the unnerving sides of consumerism. The work picks and pulls at the embodied anxieties from insatiable capitalism, chewing over desire, bodies, and fetish objects.

The pictures act as a sort of evidence of a logic distorted. They could be introduced in court as Exhibit A, Exhibit B, and so on, for a trial where no verdict is possible. The crime is indistinguishable from modern living and morality from consumer capitalism. There is a banality to evil, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578628961
• ISBN13: 9780578628967
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Seventh Child
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"