Amelia Pease

Bio: As a high school student, Amelia Pease took a college course in beginning photography with Professor Garza-Cuen. “Amelia is a dedicated and talented student who shows exceptional promise in her photography. Her final portfolio series ‘Poultry’ was highlighted on the course website, included in a college exhibition and later purchased and added to the collection of Art Historian Dr. Laura Petican.” Blue Light is excited to include her work in our collection! 

Statement: Poultry           

To these meat and egg men whose belly is their god, we poultry men would persist in describing plumage as well as figure, and insist that beauty is more valuable a quality than meat. We believe in the need to describe this beauty which we find in them: differences of the color and markings of plumage, the characteristics of the comb, wattles and ear lobes, the figure and carriage of the different breeds. The accumulation of these differences until they mount up by small degrees is one of the most powerful and pervading means by which our domestic animals have been improved. They are what capture our human fascinations and allow us to see a familiar animal in a surprisingly human light.

~ Edited from The Poultry World, For the Fancier, Family & Market Poulterer, March 1885 by Amelia Pease