Renowned painter Sarah Ashley is a New Orleans based artist who is going global. Ashley’s motto, “I wake up every morning completely inspired. A day without painting is not a day worth living. I am an artist! My job is to create and share my perspective of the world!”

They can’t feel tranquility in the setting. They are distracting themselves.

I make paintings that explore the idea of Utopia as examined in Fredrick Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. This idea of Utopia concentrates on the notion that it is an impossibility and any attempt to create one only leads to the exploitation and/or control of other people, places, and resources.

Haunting images of leaning buildings and ghostly figures are juxtaposed with decorative motifs and child-like doodles. Echoes from the past haunt the present, creating a commentary on how far we’ve come, but perhaps, how little we have truly gained.

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