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Poppies’ Pull
2025
This image continues the thread of Dorothy’s story. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy falls asleep in the poppy fields, echoing the narrative of the original painting. The poppy field references how real poppies can be used to produce opium, the base for sedatives like morphine and heroin, so the scene becomes a quiet metaphor for beauty as a drug - soft, alluring, and disorienting. This piece leans into that tension, pointing to the position girls often find themselves in: lulled, shaped, and held by expectations that look beautiful on the surface but carry a heavier cost underneath.
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