Mabon

Amy Gillian Wilson (b. 1997)
“I used to be a woman who knew how to
make things out as I saw them, but I have
since committed the pathetic error of
thinking. Wanting to understand was one
of the worst things to have happened to me.
I care too much about the utter darkness,
the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat
back the lives that have been tossed forth
from the womb to fail, to kiss and bestow
them all a second chance. I’m sending my
true love back to the bitch that bore you.
She is the world-generating spirit who all
creatures rise through: space, time, and
causality – the shell of the cosmic egg.
She is the enticement that budged the
self-brooding absolute to the act of creation.
All information inside her is systematized
around an enigma invisible even in its most
private nucleus. I’m handing you a world
on fire. I’ve given up on figuring out how
to figure things out. Every lure seems to be
an expanding vortex. Fear comes from what
surpasses me, and I fear myself becomes
I’m always ready to suffer. To protect me
who persecutes me, I’ll float in emptiness
and become air, energetic air, or maybe I’ll
be more like an instant of air. Yes, I want
to be an instant. Rather than a soul in a
body, I’ll be a body in a soul.” - Amy Gillian
Wilson, 2021
Amy Gillian Wilson was born in Boston,
Massachusetts in 1997. Her interdisciplinary
approach consists of sculpture, painting,
installation, writing, video and performance.
She earned her undergraduate degree
from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago and is currently completing the
Masters of Fine Arts program in Ceramics
at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan. She has exhibited her
artwork widely in the USA and beyond.
‘I Opened Myself And You Were Born For You Yourself’
mixed media wall hanging, 90 x 61 cm
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