"Before I start any piece, I usually go to the store and purchase some cupcakes," says Amy Williamson Miller. "I take cupcakes and drop them off the roof and see what happens when they explode — they are idea generators. I like playing with my food."

"Everyone wants to call them 'cakes,'" Amy Williamson Miller says. "They are cake-like, but at the end of the day, the cake is just a symbol to me. The work is really about identity and consumption, and I’m exploring this through life passages and rituals — the extraordinary events you go through trying to discover who you are."