Sandy Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets, furnishing them with carefully selected coloured furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming number of one object and either bright, contrasting colours or a monochromatic colours scheme.
Sandy Skoglund spends 6 months to a year planning and creating each installation. Then she brings in her models for a one-day photo shoot before she dismantles her creation.
Many of her work are dreamlike quality, 'Radioactive cat' emphasises the aspects of her pieces. The composition is centered around the kitchen. The elder man is awake sitting down on the chair. In preparation for this photograph, Skoglund sculpted each of the cats in terracotta. While domestic cats are hardly dangerous animals, the title transforms what is already a mysterious scenario into something vaguely threatening. We know that that theres no such thing of radioactive cats and they are not bright green. Furthermore there no bright red foxes in real life.