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About Me
- Amanda Humphries
- I enjoy dissolving the lines we draw between things and softening/questioning definition. As an artist I am concerned about the modern consumer as a subject and how it defines identity, its permanence, transience, and ultimate contradictions. Using Games and Play as a base and falling into the vanitas philosophies of the 16th century (and a current resurgence of the theme with artists today) I am exploring ideas of invincibility, fantasy dwelling and desire, working them in with their counterpoint: temporality and decay. Construction sites is a body of work acknowledging the constant state of flux and building in our lives, self as author and life becoming an extension of the limitless imagination; a saturation of desire, temptation, accessibility and disconnection.
I love this! I've been wanting to experiment with embroidery for a while now. I do embroidery on clothes etc but I really want to 'draw' with it in white thread on white linen and then paint watery colours over the top and see how the colours stick to the thread. I imagine they would intensify but I don't know if that's true!
ReplyDeleteLoving the blog Amanda! Keep it up!
that will be great! it's beautiful to draw with because its repetative, binding, interactive. it feels good to work and rework the paper. i wonder how it will be with something soft? yeah. i think the thread will be more condusive to the inks, where as the linen isn't as absorbant. this will be cool Coco!
ReplyDeleteyou could textile project collaborate with Jana....???!!
thank you. i find blogging is making me relax. I want to see more of your musings. august 2009 ... i see, although not as much as i want, progress everyday. it objectectifies it and i relax!
still not putting enough time aside to read atm and although i have sourced some great belly dancing and meditation how tos' on youtube i haven't made room for them in my day!
xx