GMO Picnic illustrates the dangers in the food we eat. Often fast food is the quick cheap option for busy families and has been touted as the most harmful. Ingredients are given name changes to mislead buyers. Corporate greed continues to contribute to the health crisis of America. 

GMO Picnic

COVID isolation has enormously impacted children. During this difficult time, healthy adults with support and coping skills have found it extremely hard to live separated from others. Developing children are left with unknown psychological traumas along with physical unmet needs is yet another side effect of this global world crisis. 

Imaginary Friend

This piece depicts what is expected of mothers in the midst of the ongoing global pandemic. Whether they decide to homeschool or force their children to wear a mask, every decision they make is judged and disgraced by others who don't humor the thought of difficulties in a pandemic as a mother.

The Perfect Mother

Pretty Boy depicts the vanity we are socially bound to in professional life. Maintaining the social norm for the business clean cut look in order to be taken seriously and respected in corporate settings. 

Pretty Boy

As a result of accepting the reality of the pandemic, we continuously try to fight the invisible with cleaners. Mrs. Clean represents the everyday chemicals we use to clean our homes to protect ourselves and our families but often have lasting harmful effects. 

Mrs. Clean

This image depicts the harsh reality of the state that the environment is in, inflicting a direct impact on nature and the overall health of humanity. Have we created a world in where the environment is now hunting the hunters?

On The Hunt

An environmental depiction of global warming and pollution. We continually turn a blind eye and refuse to acknowledge what we are collectively doing to the planet. Our future children and grandchildren will have to solve for the selfish choices we continue to make.

Acid Rain

This photo symbolizes the people we allow into our lives that slowly poison us with their words. The victim often holds this person in high esteem, growing more and more attached, all the while they are oblivious to what is truly happening and end up questioning their own sanity. This image is meant to expose the hidden toxicity in relationships.

Gaslight Whisper

I was inspired by the war and post war eras need to escape from reality. Avoiding our own reality during the pandemic through Tiger King, TikTok, movies, social media, and general hiding. Some withdraw from hard situations all the time, but it was illuminated in our collective world-crisis. “Silver Screen” depicts those of us who bury our heads in the sand and try to disappear from what is going on around us altogether, escaping into someone else's reality to avoid processing the real world. Flirting with the invisible line of a metal health break and repudiation. 

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Ash Margaret Cheatham