Amy Sealove believes all that is necessary for any language to exist is an agreement amongst a group of people that one thing will stand for another. Her paintings are an exploration of responses to personal and world events using inventive text and semiotics, the study of signs and symbols. Mixed media painted on canvas with acrylic medium and marked with graphite; these marks propose a new flexible dialogue, a field of possibilities. These marks stimulate the viewer to make their own connections. Consider these marks analogue codes rather than digital codes, like music or the gestural movements of dance.
Inspired by automatism inherent in the work of Jackson Pollock and Mark Tobey's painting process, the assuredness of the oriental calligraphers, the sheer abandon of graffiti writers including Keith Haring and the playfulness of Paul Klee Amy finds joy in the abstract expression of any given moment.