Dear Viewers,
In undergraduate school, I was inspired by images of Eskimo summer tents, Ivory Coast tunics, and Tlingit pine-needle basketry. When I was sent to the art library or visual resource center, instead of researching images of European Artists, I was continually looking for more images of those who had been somehow "written out". Maybe this was because I felt I had been "written out" too. I was deeply influenced by my upbringing in section eight housing by my very young, single-parent mother. I grew passionate early on in college about learning all that I could about my 'herstory', taking many Women's Studies classes.
About that time, I took a class with Judy Chicago. She talked about how the Western World had all theses hard images and architecture, skyscrapers, pavement, machinery, etc., things often associated with men. And she wondered out loud what it would be like if women had had more of a role in designing? Would our cities be softer, rounder, and naturalistic? Those ideas stuck with me as I found my home in the fiber studio and began developing my own style of twine method basketry.
During this time I started working summers in Alaska, as a commercial fisherwoman, and grew in my understanding of solitude and love of the natural world. In my work I seek to represent the balance of representing feminine imagery and the natural world in our cities that are covered with the skyscrapers and pavement. Even as my work evolves, it continues to reflect a raw nature from all my early influences.
Equally Yours,
Michelle Amos
THE ARTIST
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- Michelle Amos
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- michellekamos@gmail.com
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THE ART
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- Vessels
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- hand-dyed woven muslin
THE CAUSE
The balance of representing feminine imagery and the natural world.
Michelle Amos
