Amira Alsareinye: An Artist’s Statement and Recent Work

AMIRA ALSAREINYE | AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Although our thoughts may be mesmerizing and absurdly beautiful, my art works with the concept that we are not our thoughts.

Ninety percent of my works are based off of intense memory-fueled visualizations that are scientifically termed as involuntary semantic memories. These memories may present themselves as random text, images, sounds, and more, suddenly coming to mind. Many times, these visualizations are contrary to natural order; like dreams, they are odd, fantastic, vivid, and sometimes frightening.

Because they are memories, some of them may be exclusive to my perception of the world, which is very unique, because I am a firstgeneration American with immigrant parents from very different culture: my father is Syrian and my mother is Mexican. I was born and raised in America; all of these cultures melded together create a distinctively creative world view.

I seek to ground these vivid memory mixtures in the present, sharing them with the world, to reflect on the amazingly ridiculous patterns of the mind. In 2014, I graduated with a degree in biology, adding to the constant representation of anatomical figures within my art.

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