Artist : Amy Gillian Wilson
Title : I Opened Myself And You Were Born For You Yourself
Medium : mixed media wall hanging
Dimensions : 90 x 61 cm


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“I used to be a woman who knew how to make things out as I saw them, but I have since committed the pathetic error of thinking. Wanting to understand was one of the worst things to have happened to me. I care too much about the utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb to fail, to kiss and bestow them all a second chance. I’m sending my true love back to the bitch that bore you. She is the world-generating spirit who all creatures rise through: space, time, and causality – the shell of the cosmic egg. She is the enticement that budged the self-brooding absolute to the act of creation. All information inside her is systematized around an enigma invisible even in its most private nucleus. I’m handing you a world on fire. I’ve given up on figuring out how to figure things out. Every lure seems to be an expanding vortex. Fear comes from what surpasses me, and I fear myself becomes I’m always ready to suffer. To protect me who persecutes me, I’ll float in emptiness and become air, energetic air, or maybe I’ll be more like an instant of air. Yes, I want to be an instant. Rather than a soul in a body, I’ll be a body in a soul.” - Amy Gillian Wilson, 2021

Amy Gillian Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1997. Her interdisciplinary approach consists of sculpture, painting, installation, writing, video and performance. She earned her undergraduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently completing the Masters of Fine Arts program in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She has exhibited her artwork widely in the USA and beyond.