Amy Stein

Out of the two projects Amy showed I preferred her "Domesticated" work to "Stranded". It was an interesting concept to take these stuffed animals and recreate stories of the animals' encounters with people. I liked the one photograph of the dead deer in the back of the truck with the blood coming out of its head and surrounding it on the truck bed. It reminded me of a photograph I took in high school of a deer carcass rotting on train tracks. She said something about how people think the picture is gruesome and when I showed people my photograph a lot of people thought it was disgusting, but I thought it was the coolest photograph  I had taken to date. I also liked the photo taken from behind the little girl standing with the wolf/coyote in her yard. The composition was nice and just the fact of there being little helpless girl standing there looking at this wild animal crouching and ready to run and pounce on her, I thought the scene was set set up quite well.

  I was less impressed with the "Stranded" series. i didn't really buy the whole concept of it. She started off with saying how it reflected the Bush administration and it slacking when it came time to react to during Hurricane Katrina, I just had to role my eyes. I thought it was a big stretch, and from looking at her photos you would have no idea that was her concept, they just looked like people broken down on the side of the road.  I feel if an artist has to reach that for a concept to go with their work, it shows a weakness in what they have created.