Supima cotton poplin, printed with 4-color artwork.

A progression of “gut feelings on a surface”, showcased in one of the scarves, “gut feelings on a canvas” renders intuitive sensations as a full-body experience.

The print, first created for a scarf, started as release — an intuitive painting that emerged after months of visual receptivity. It was drawn and hand-painted with gouache in Brooklyn, New York, at the designer’s home studio at the time. The painting happened like her body knew before what to depict: where to place each color, each shape.

Gut feeling (idiomatic)

An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without logic or rationale.

The print was then expanded into an engineered format, which allowed for a larger, more visually impactful piece. .

For this textile, Amanda explored traditional screen printing techniques on donated fabric for the most bright of colors, and to research the technique with the hopes of implementing it into up cycling for revitalization in the future.

The result is the brightest, most eye-catching loose dress, made of Supima cotton poplin and lined with silk organza and soft garment structures.

THIS GARMENT IS MADE TO ORDER. Please allow 4-6 weeks for production prior to shipment. We will reach out regarding measurements needed to guarantee that the garment fits you best.

GUT FEELINGS ON A CANVAS

$2,500.00

CARE Gentle wash in cold water. Air dry. Press seams folded out for a wider shape.
Amanda’s wearable art pieces are created to have an intimate and spiritual interaction with the wearer. She hopes to spark intuitive dressing in her audience, which refers to purchasing, owning, lending, mending and wearing pieces that have spiritual meaning because of the way they were made, what is depicted in them and how it makes you feel when you wear them. As with the scarves, each piece represents something about us, our existence and how that connects to our natural surroundings. The pieces are done combining industrial techniques with couture techniques, taught to the designer by her grandmother. Each piece is meant to distort the body in unusual, alien ways as you move in them, imagining new ways of seeing beauty outside the modern beauty standard.

As part of Amanda’s formula, every silhouette is seen as a three dimensional canvas, and every print lives completely in symbiosis with each piece’s shape. The prints are designed alongside the draping and pattern making process.

All pieces are made of deadstock, donated, and/or sourced non-organic and organic cotton. No chemical dyes were used to color the pieces. Printing happened locally in New York and abroad in London, in a small, women-owned experimental screen printing facility. All samples were designed, fitted and developed in-house, with a full small-batch production run done in Utuado, Puerto Rico.

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