Amanda C. Sweet, Oil Paintings
2005 - 2012
2005 - 2012
"...This painting series, by craft, intent, or physical substance, hint at that daily disruption of life, and our losing efforts to piece back together, time-and-again, our own small space, in the world. This body of work nods to my family. To our land. To the myriad cycles of Nature, that rattle delicate human sensibility. Am I alive, in the same way, since our house burned down? Are my parents?
Seems to me that some destruction can be creative, but I’m not you. Maybe, as an audience, you will sense, in the present moment, coupled to perceptions of the past, or anticipation of the future, even amid destructive elements of the world that seem wanton, an unveiling, in these landscapes..."
Seems to me that some destruction can be creative, but I’m not you. Maybe, as an audience, you will sense, in the present moment, coupled to perceptions of the past, or anticipation of the future, even amid destructive elements of the world that seem wanton, an unveiling, in these landscapes..."
- Amanda C. Sweet (excerpt from Artist Statement).
