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Karrena Amado

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This exciting and beautiful student art exhibition focuses on furthering awareness of past and present human suffering including the Holocaust.

The never again philosophy is addressed in this dynamic visual discussion of inaction where the viewer is asked to ponder the affects of mental and physical stagnation.


Handmade Book

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to the following people who made this show what it is:
Dan Amado - for your brilliant ideas
Tom Tulhurst 0 for your amazing photographic advice
Diane Myer - for your guidance
Erez and Nikole - for your input
Mom and Dad - for always supporting me in everything
The Gilman Scholarship - for helping fund my study abroad which in turn made this work possible
The Gallery People - for all of your impecable organization and installation work

- Karrena


All images share the dimensional elements of 16', 24', and 8'

24'x16'
Archival Ink Jet

This series of faces has many interpretations and meanings. Hidden in groups, people can be dehumanized or de-personized. However, when standing alone, we remember each voice, each face.

Left to Right:
East Side Gallery Abstraction - Berlin, Germany
Hidden Faces in Stone - Somewhere in Europe
Screaming Faces - Photographed in the Jewish History Museum in Berlin


Left to Right:

Remains of the Wall
24'x16' 
A reminder of the prison the Germany used to be for many of its people.

Suffering Triptic 
each image: 16'x8'
Horizontal lines resemble the previous image and its vertical bars. This piece is meant to remind the viewer of prison, suffering and enslavement.

Hidden Man
24'x16'
Some people see him and others do not. Such is life. The darker figure on the right in this abstract image is revealed, when closely examined, as a sort of hunchback man walking alone in an abyss.


Solitude Triptic
each image: 16'x8'
This piece is meant to evoke feelings of loneliness and solitude. What it may be like to experience something so terrible that a life becomes darkness with only a shred of light - hope.



24'x16'

Words of Wisdom

16'x16' 
Archival Ink Jet
Intertwined People and Shadows
Koln, Germany

16'x16' 
Archival Ink Jet
Graffiti Graveyard
Vienna, Austria


16'x8' 
Archival Ink Jet

Left to right: 
Bundestag
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Hochenschonhausen Prison outside of Berlin


Cartoons








The statistics displayed above are the same as what was written on the toilet paper. This piece is meant to help the viewer understand the disposability of this information while putting it in terms comprehensible to the mind.

Knowledge





Atrocities




Written on the strips of toilet paper are statistics including the name, year, and approximate death count of genocides and other human atrocities in the past 100 years. 

This information is displayed on toilet paper to imply how often this information is easily disposed. It is fragile, yet it can be thrown away and forgotten quickly.

Moving Water



One

16'x8'
Archival Ink Jet

16'x8'
Archival Ink Jet

Stagnation



Problems



One's World





Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp


5"16'
Archival Ink Jet