Chromatic Tissue: Essencia Sculpture

Mari Amman serves a secular-sacred through her work with the arts in ways done prior to siloed logic, active in several mediums involving historic and scientific method research, with subconscious and somatic study to create  images and installations, videos, poetry, performance, paintings, sculptures, and artistic research. Focused through the parietal aspects of perception, and rooted in transcendent, mystical experiences of beauty, her work invites viewers into afferent spaces of contemplation on timeless themes throughout history, technology, science, mortality, violence, and built environments. Her Nordic-Italian roots and ancestry to political activist Ellen Ammann, landscape artist Harriet Sundström, and discreet histories of migrant hardship and perseverance of faith within life inspired her to create Aesthetic Resonances, based on pedagogical methods for human skill development in Pattern Recognition, Visual Literacy, and Body Architecture. Her childhood experiences being raised near the Agonic line, surrounded by forest and prairie preserves, a nuclear power plant, and industrial agriculture have fueled her diligence to creating with reverence for the beautiful world. Foundations in philosophy, music, and performance inform her multidisciplinary work with relationships between Landscape, Technology, Sublime, and Allegory. Her work is widely collected in private and public collections. Numerous prizes and artist residencies have been awarded to Amman's work. Her sensitivity for life and reverence for beauty is expressed in her involvement with foundational and cultural projects of Art Farm Iowa (US, 2023) and Arte Expuesto (MX, 2023), both of which exhibit and collect her work. Her diligence to the moral significance and nuanced difference of evolutionary biology is expressed through artistic research in technology and sciences, such as Solfege Souche and Afjordance screened at AWMAS (UCSB, 2020). Omniscient, monolithic image and text was awarded 1st by the jury in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition, at the Asia Cultural Center in Gwangju (SK, 2015). Poet and artist-in-residence for two-months in Paris (FR, 2023), three-months in Bonny Doon (US, 2022), a month in Kjerringøy Land Art (NO, 2020) where she spoke about analogue photography, time and form in Sublime Timescapes and led Forest Bathing. She developed trauma informed pedagogical methods and psychological research at Angelot-Trélex (CH, 2019).