Peanut House

Part of the "Mark Yourself Safe" series.

Ashley Johnson is a writer, entrepreneur, and multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on the Black experience and her identity as a Winston-Salem resident through her photography, textiles, and woven masks. Johnson creates performative photographs, in which her camera becomes an instrument of the Black experience, and the internal and external characteristics of Blackness. Her work neither imposes nor proposes a solution. It only intends to foster a space in which Black women find comfort and gentle curiosity kindles in other audiences.