(: happy pills :)
In Happy Pills, Cristina Burns constructs hyperreal altars to addiction — seductive still-life compositions where Vicodin, Ecstasy, gummy bears, Viagra, and Valium dissolve the line between candy and chemical. .
Presented in radiant palettes and meticulously controlled arrangements, the pills form spirals and mandala-like structures — visual cues of repetition, hypnosis, and inescapable cycles. At the center of these compositions is a cold truth: we are a society spiraling into synthetic pleasure.
The series interrogates the aesthetics of dependency — the packaging of pain relief as pop culture. Happy Pills reflects on a culture hooked not only on pharmaceuticals and sugar, but on the illusion of control, love, performance, and healing — always temporary, always sold in capsules.
This is the architecture of modern-day worship: bright, addictive, and impossible to turn away from.
Happy Pills
In Money we trust, in Sugar we trust, in Pills we trust!
The Candy Loop
Eternal Pop
Chemical Devotion
The Loop
Eat Me, Heal Me
Temporary Salvation
