Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / JANUARY 2020
Amanda Page
Australia
pagestudio.com.au
About
Amanda Page makes works about transformation. In
capturing and recording changes of state in materials and
processes, Page explores change as a universal condition
that connects all matter.
Works develop from observing transformative processes in
natural systems and phenomena, such as weather patterns,
temperature, erosion, interaction between organisms,
metamorphosis, growth and decay, where organic
substances break down into simpler forms of matter, and
how matter and energy change under varying circumstance.
Particular phenomena, cycles of life and death, and
the coalescing and dissipation of natural systems are
investigated and embodied in the works.
Page uses constructed parameters to record processes of
melting, freezing, molding and transforming materials into
various states. Perishable materials reference loss and
fragility in natural systems and capture the interaction of
forces and energies.
Page uses water, ice, sunlight and camera-less exposure
processes combined with drawing, printmaking and
sculptural methods to catalyse, explore and articulate
processes of change. Specific areas of investigation include
capturing ice in its natural frozen form, freezing water to make
ice forms, melting ice and recording the marks it leaves in its
trace and melting and casting materials into molded forms.
Snow Showers
Using the cyanotype process of exposing light to an
emulsion coated surface, I recorded snow showers and
other atmospheric activity. The process captures changes in
weather patterns in the season of winter.
Melted snow and rain pool and reflect too little light to affect
a change in the emulsion surface, producing patterns of blue
and white in a patchy, uneven surface coverage. In contrast,
strong solar activity transforms the whole surface into dark
blue where the light has absorbed most. Snow showers create
a mottled, saturated effect that references the cosmos.
Duration exposures reveal nature’s transformative process
by capturing natural phenomena and changing sequence in
weather patterns.