Issue #54


Authors

Dinner with my family, Butterflies in my stomach

Amanda Kartes
visual art

graphite on paper

Amanda Kartes
visual art
Amanda Kartes

The work of Amanda Kartes explores the complex relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and loss of innocence pervade large-scale drawings and installations. Claustrophobic composition and exaggerated landscape are used to convey an uncanny, dream-like world. She searches for the severity of emotion that one would feel as a child before repetition of negative experiences creates less of a dramatic response, creating an environment that invokes the memory of experiencing pain, loss and discomfort for the very first time.

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