Shawn Bailey’s Pills is a series of photographic and print-media installations generated from digitally simulated models of the psychoactive pharmaceuticals that act as regulators of depression, anxiety and pain. Juxtaposing luxury, privilege and status with the need for maintenance and self-control, the work explores the tensions that arise among an ordered and disordered social self, personal control, uncertainty, and desire. A separate digital video installation, B&H, investigates the eroticism, addiction, and ritual repetition of smoking.