MFA Annual
Spotlight Artist
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski
MFA Annual
Artist Statement
I was raised moving from city to city, so my physical environment
was always in a state of flux. Growing up in a shape-shifting
landscape has tethered my practice to liminality, mystery,
and multiplicity. Using cartoons and symbol recognition, and
anchoring the rainbow as a place between places, I experiment
with how to articulate that which is always changing. Heavily
influenced by Understanding Comics and Scott McCloud’s theory
of Iconic Art, my figures are drawn with the intention of creating
a visual text that shifts the unconscious cultural baseline for the
symbol of “human being.”
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