Apr 23, 2010
Hey, Hot Shot! - HHS! Contender: Amy Stevens The Confections series started as a response to turning 30. It was a celebration of birthdays, cake, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original intent was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I didn’t quite make it to 30 cakes in time for my first show, but I sure got a lot of ideas from those first cakes. When I started the project, I not only had to learn how to shoot in a studio setting, but also how to bake and decorate cakes. I ordered a cake decorating kit from Marthastewart.com and watched the included instructional video. When I quickly discovered my cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video and recipe booklet, I was free to make them as grotesque and amazing as possible—my little rebellion. Four years later I am still making these crazy confections and still obsessing over color and pattern. Amazingness.

Hey, Hot Shot! - HHS! Contender: Amy Stevens

The Confections series started as a response to turning 30. It was a celebration of birthdays, cake, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original intent was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I didn’t quite make it to 30 cakes in time for my first show, but I sure got a lot of ideas from those first cakes. When I started the project, I not only had to learn how to shoot in a studio setting, but also how to bake and decorate cakes. I ordered a cake decorating kit from Marthastewart.com and watched the included instructional video. When I quickly discovered my cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video and recipe booklet, I was free to make them as grotesque and amazing as possible—my little rebellion.

Four years later I am still making these crazy confections and still obsessing over color and pattern.

Amazingness.

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