At the core of all of my work lays an interior, or a living space, that has been derived from my history.   These rooms range from a reference to a childhood home whose details have been conjured up through found photographs, or a model of a room created from memory after visiting a new vacant house. 

I have arrived at interiors as a source because each room that I have lived in has operated as an isolated chapter in my own personal story.   As they rest in the background of my narrative, rooms inadvertently assist me in keeping track of the passage of time.   Since much of my practice is concerned with an examination of the past, as a narrative or a concept, living spaces have become the foundation to my work.  

The painter Barnett Newman once said, "One thing that I am involved in about painting, is that painting should give man a sense of place:   that he knows he is there, so that he is aware of himself" .   On that note, the scale, materials, and placement of my work, ranging from the vast to the enclosed, are used to envelop or draw in the viewer, so that they may create their own experience of the space and ultimately become aware of the architecture that the work, and themselves, are housed in.

I explore each of these rooms through a series of drawings, paintings, watercolors, photographs (taken or found), and sculptures (or models of rooms).   Each room dictates what methodology needs to be employed, giving way to a rather plastic exploration, which results in a present object of a past experience.  

In my work each source carries a conceptual characteristic for me.   For example, pieces done from memory and photographs, not to mention how the paint is applied (glazing vs. opacity), comment on how our memory functions. Work done from observation, the creation of models and the use of a mirror's reflection (and by default the reflection of my studio space), bring up ideas of repetition, bringing us forward - i.e. into the present moment.

To quote the author Saul Bellow, " I write to discover the next room of my fate." I've come to understand that as my practice continues, the rooms that I source have the ability to guide me toward further possibilities, through the discovery of unexplored halls and unread chapters.

- Amanda Hanlon, 2007