Amanda Curtis | Staten Island, New York USA

My artwork and performance uses elaborate costuming with vivid colors on fanciful and sometimes horrific characters. These characters are then placed in very stark or elaborately beautiful and futile situations where they interact by performing surreal mirrors of regular human interaction.

The main influence for my work comes from characters I imagined and interacted with as a child, along with Victorian era writing, clothing and early religious paintings. Through performance and visual art I hope to show people a fantastic world where they will realize the futility of their human ego and fear, and to embrace love, passion and supreme honesty.