email: amy@amysimons.com
artist CV: here
I make woodcut collages. Woodcut prints because from a whole comes many parts, and collages because those parts together become another whole. Printed on lightweight paper, the work breaths and sways in response to the viewer’s presence, impacted without direct contact. Contrasting with the colossal, details present in each print invite closer attention; focusing care for individuals within the flock.
I am interested in touch and how it lingers in the body as a trace. I look at how bodies in proximity become shapes drawn together, repel one another, or hold tension in the space between. How do bodies become ecologies of mixed beings – assemblages of minerals, microbiomes and humanness, further mixed with memories of our past selves and promises of future ones? The compositions I create are speculative relationships.