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The Ephemeral Pool

The Ephemeral Pool is an audiovisual installation exploring the artist's personal experience with mental illness. Bizarro utilizes art making as a form of therapeutic expression in order to externalize the complexities of managing mental illness and how that, in turn, causes her to question her own reality. This uncertainty leads her to search for greater meaning and answers to existential questions. Due to these experiences, the artist believes in the development of personal awareness of the separateness of our true selves from the workings of our minds. This installation offers both the artist and the viewer an opportunity to become aware of the ever-changing present moment and encourages meditative rest and reflection. 

Bio

Amanda Bizarro is an interdisciplinary artist inspired by the interconnectivity between visual and emotional language and views art-making as a therapeutic expression of self that presents an opportunity to discover unknown personal truths. Bizarro’s work originates from her experiences living with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The experience of intrusive thoughts is most often channeled into her art through the repetition and layering of digitally manipulated video and audio. She uses these videos to stage ephemeral and multifaceted installations. The fleeting quality of such installations allows viewers the opportunity to become observant of the constant presence of change.