Tuesday Feb 11 Guest Artist: Amanda Small – Required Lecture
Amanda Small
All Truths Wait in All Things | 2013
My current work
considers perceptions of the present moment and the remote cosmos to address
how we relate with and respond to the environment, and to present new ways of
looking at the world around us. Ontological inquiry is the origin of my
reflections on the nature of our world as well as the existence of “universes”
parallel to our reality.
I am exploring the interval between the finite and
infinitesimal, as well as humanity’s relationship to the universe. I create
installations that combine mundane materials and ambiguous imagery that can be
concurrently microscopic and stellar, conveying multiple dimensions and
perspectives. I choose to consider each piece as an “environment-system”, and
part of a greater “collection” or collective experience.
In this work, I reflect on ideas of multiple worlds and the
unidentified zones situated between fiction and reality and how we experience
the world around us in relation to our identity, both as an individual, and as
a collective. The work symbolizes a view of the world as more vast and complex,
more unpredictable and colorful, than what our comprehension, here and now,
would let us know.
I am interested in the psychological connections made between
tessellating patterns and symbols based on the implied meaning associated with
collections of patterns, maps, and symbols. These thoughts were “materialized”
in the concept of infinity - described by the indefinite and complex nature of
the physical world - as well as in the suggestion that a constant and eternal
movement pre-exists in all things.
My work explores the relationship between physical place and
intangible experience. It emphasizes the idea that movement is an intrinsic and
permanent flux existing in all things, as well as being the sign and measure of
space, and time, and memory. I use patterning, and symbology to point to an
underlying interconnectedness and a shared structure.
By looking with
curiosity at the landscape and merging rational and technological order with
notions of beauty and the transcendental, I use technological methods to
visualize aspects of the natural world, taking micro and macro views of the
earth, cells, satellite mapping, topographies and systematic patterning and
translate that information into installations that contemplate the meaning of
“home” or “place”.
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