Amalia Attias

I was a junior in college when I learned the truth about Dyslexia after years of understanding it as a disability in the context of standardized learning. It took one TED talk video to crumble a long time institutionalized belief of what was happening inside of my own brain. My work since has dedicated itself to understanding the true potential of cognitive abilities through the developmental process of art and design. During my studies at RISD I began to understand that material aesthetics could be extracted from visceral consciousness once I trusted that I was capable of translating a cognitive emotion into materiality. Mark-making, as an operation of direct metaphysical channeling, aligns analogously with my generative process as a designer.

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Marked Desk

Steel, Paint-marker, Letraset
30" x 16"

The Marked Desk represents the moment in my career when I began to understand my process and accept it’s advantages. It was the first step in the development of my own individual design language

Marked Desk

Steel, Paint-marker, Letraset
30" x 16"

The Marked Desk represents the moment in my career when I began to understand my process and accept it’s advantages. It was the first step in the development of my own individual design language

Verberation poem

Steel, Paint-marker, Letraset
11" x 8"

Marked Desk originated from a drawing made with a red paint marker and Letrasets the summer before my junior year. I described it as “the woven textile that covers the dyslexic mind”.

Mark-Making installation

Drop Cloth, Ink
9' x 12' x 9'

Using handmade paint markers as extensions of my body, I studied material relationships in motion, subconscious channeling, and displacements of reality.

Mark-Making installation

Drop Cloth, Ink
9' x 12' x 9'

Using handmade paint markers as extensions of my body, I studied material relationships in motion, subconscious channeling, and displacements of reality.

Mark-Making installation

Drop Cloth, Ink
9' x 12' x 9'

Using handmade paint markers as extensions of my body, I studied material relationships in motion, subconscious channeling, and displacements of reality.

Mark-Making installation

Drop Cloth, Ink
9' x 12' x 9'

Using handmade paint markers as extensions of my body, I studied material relationships in motion, subconscious channeling, and displacements of reality.

Woven Radial (in progress)

Hay, yarn
N/A

Started as my first object of quarantine, this woven spiral has continued to grow, and will constantly expand outward, evolving while always overlapping itself, materializing through whatever medium I happen to have available. It is a process of repetition, devotion, and vibrant matter.

Woven Radial Chair Sketches

Pen
N/A

Woven chairs to be developed.

Furniture Design ↓

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Amalia
Attias