Amanda Stohl Hendershot

ARTIST STATEMENT

Plants held a sentimental memory for me when I was a child.  Using my mother’s old embroidery scissors I would tear and cut the heads of flowers and give them what I called then “haircuts.” Recently, I have been using real flowers, dissecting every piece and organizing them back into a geometric-like display of their original forms, showcasing every part of that particular flower. I am exploring my process of slowly deconstructing that which isn’t normally disassembled, which  requires an intricate and scientific sense to detail. The structure of nature has always been interesting to me, particularly what is hidden and cannot be seen at first glance. I explore the world with a curiousity of what is inside. My recent work is about the process and the arrangement of turning a three-dimensional object into a flat collage. The appreciation of the complexity of objects and their amazing sculptural forms and the aesthetic beauty of their arranged patterns will give the viewer a new perspective of the world.