Eyecandy

• Photographer
  Wenkai Wang, United States

The series, Eyecandy, is a visual investigation of alternative lifestyles that escape the mainstream consumeristic gaze. Through this exploration I constantly balance my interest in the spectacle of mundane daily life and my yearning for untamed wildness. Eye-catching photos are the familiar byproduct of excessive consumerism. They provide a constant stimulation to our visual sweet-spot in a similar way to how fast food and fast fashion momentarily satisfy our other needs. Eyecandy as a body of work often utilises irony in an attempt to expose the status quo of our consumerist society. The pho