Amy Gross is a fiber and mixed media artist based in Florida.
My embroidered and beaded fiber sculptures merge together the natural world and my own inner life. They suggest not only what can be seen, but also what cannot: the early alterations of time, the first suggestions of disintegration. My elements cluster, tangle, hybridize and multiply, adapting to the environments they are placed into. Yet, paradoxically, they’re the result of human intention - completely unnatural.
I never collaborate with the nature that fascinates me, or use found objects, anything that was ever alive. All works are constructed with synthetic yarns and beads and wire and paper and fabric - still and silent fictions frozen in the midst of their suggested transformations. My organisms will not die. They don’t change and they do not grow, The natural world will alter, regardless of all attempts to prolong or preserve, I know that making these objects will not slow or stop the clock, but they allow me to hold on to who I am and who I was, what I love, what fascinates and frightens me, in a life that moves so fast it blurs.
