Pamela Michelle Johnson: American Still Life - WafflesPamela Michelle Johnson: American Still Life - Gummi BearsPamela Michelle Johnson: American Still Life - PopTarts, Hamburgers

Pamela Michelle Johnson’s American Still Life series of paintings is a commentary on the American way of life. These large oil paintings throw our junk food culture back into our faces. The work is both gross and enticing.

Teetering towers of hamburgers, drippy stacks of syrupy waffles, sticky piles of sugary candy… Junk food. It’s the taste of America. It is what we eat. It is who we are. The insatiable American appetite is set on a path of consumption. Devouring to the point where we are left with nothing, nothing but the consequential garbage. Quintessentially American, junk food is not just part of our diet, it epitomizes our cultural ideals and social norms.

Continue for more of her work.

Pamela Michelle Johnson: American Still Life - MintsPamela Michelle Johnson: American Still Life - Handi SnacksPamela Michelle Johnson: American Still Life - Hostess Cupcakes, PB&JPamela Michelle Johnson: American Still Life - M&Ms

I call dibs on the mints. Check out Pamela’s website at www.pamelamichellejohnson.com.

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Ricky Salsberry is an interactive designer working in Chicago and the editor of The Donut Project. In his spare time he reads/rants about technology, watches hockey, wrecks his bike, and designs some more.