IKEA Parables (2017-2019) is a series of digital photographs that are short parables set in the near future, when a huge disparity in wealth and class in the United States has caused an economic uprising in the general population. As a result, a progressive government is elected. It passes numerous laws promoting the reformation of corporate culture and local economies to deal with high unemployment, poverty, pay gap between genders, and enormous homelessness. One such measure allows pop-up businesses to access large department stores without notice or any required permits to set up shop. It was a brief time of intense creativity, homespun development for the disenfranchised, which often saw odd combinations of cottage industries adjacent mass shopping experiences. These are some of those experiences, as might have occurred at the family style IKEA home goods emporium. The full series can be viewed here on page 95: Photographs 2013-2022
