Amelia Akiko Frank

 

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Salt Pillar, 2021

Amelia Akiko Frank is an artist and arts educator based in Chicago, IL. She is interested in the breakdown of categorical purity. Her work centers on moments of contamination, entropy, and in-betweenness, examining the ways in which environment, selfhood, and memory become porous. Often borrowing imagery from mythology and ritual, she explores methods of cultural and psychological organization across time and scale.

 

Website: amiakiko.myportfolio.com

Instagram: Instagram.com/a.kitsu

Email: amiakiko@gmail.com

 

Inspirations/Resources

 

Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva

The works of Eva Hesse, Anselm Kiefer, and Yamamoto Masao

Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas https://warburg.library.cornell.edu/about

The legends of sun goddess Amaterasu