Amanda Small received her MFA from Kansas State University
and has appeared in Ceramic Magazine, Ceramic Quarterly as well as being
featured in 500 Sculptures. This particular piece is a digital hybrid because she adds video to create depth. Her influences come from geometry, radials, and lattice patterns to reference architecture
found within living forms. (Source: amandasmall.com/artist
statement) Through
the use of technology (she states) we are allowed to see ‘intimate
views of otherwise invisible worlds’. By adding the dimension of
digital patterns alludes to an unseen world we may be familiar with but seen only
through a microscope. There is a fragility in her pieces using unfired fibrous
material but by the use of multiples, gives it strength. The digital patterns
make her piece come alive – literally. I remember taking botany in high school
and witnessing the cell flow through the stems of plants – it was mesmerizing
to watch how something inanimate can be so alive perhaps that is her tendency
in an abstract way.
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