ASHLEE OLIVER

 
     


   
   
   
         

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I have become less interested in making things suitable for the public and more interested in involving the whole idea. I am tired of seeing images that are “the perfect beauty”. Who cares? However, everyone makes it a point to obsess over vanity, and it seems it has turned into a gruesome and horrific competition. Our society, including myself, revolves day-to-day activity around self-gratifying actions because of our own insecurity. In the past I have tried to pull away from patterns like these, yet in the end I have realized that as long as I live in any society these patterns will always occur. It is inevitable, because there will always be insecurity, thus comes self-gratification to fulfill all that is missing; the endless cycle of what was and always will be. The end result to this analyzation is, I do what I feel is right and necessary for each moment of my time. I give the public what I perceive as beautiful, confused, ugly, painful and happy; then I dissect it into an incision that mirrors my thoughts into images that can be shared with the viewer.