Sandy Skoglund

Sandy Skoglund's work is definitely very innovative and in my opinion, the real definition of art in the sense that it possesses both creativity, imagination and is also visually appealing.

I think, obviously, at first her work would've have inflicted shock, resentment and awe from the art community, but given a second glance her work is recognized as creative, elaborate and intriguing. Aside from both criticism and praise, Skoglund was born in 1946, grew up in California and was schooled in the Midwest. Some of the things that influenced her are American and European cinema. The end result of all of this is half a year work to produce one scene, which, in my opinion, is a brilliant outcome. Her work is absolutely genius.

I think what the writer meant in the last paragraph of the article was that her work relies heavily upon emotional response opposed to technicalities of a photograph, meaning the questioning of why it was taken, what makes it the way it is, etc. Her artwork has themes, stories, underlying stories and almost a feeling of tension that translates emotionally, similar to watching a film.