Amy Hanks
My work is a process of reckoning. I build spirit-filled collage, drawings and sculpture rooted in ever evolving narratives. I layer disparate media such as watercolor, acrylic and even glitter within high key figurative scenarios. Through an additive and lifting process, imagery is built up and at times lost, buried or revealed again. This physical editing reflects a meditation on the landscapes of impermanence and memory.
In my work iconic characters might develop multiple limbs to help them swim, fly, and run through vibrant, emotionally textured landscapes before rooting into the earth. Skies open under oceans in a kind of psychological cartography. There is a free interplay of the recognizable and magical. I’m not a surrealist who aims to disrupt perception, but a truth teller who immerses the viewer in it. I treat the interior psychological landscape not as an abstract state, but as a physical, living, and deeply felt reality.
