Amanda Love is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in bookbinding, typography, and conservation. Her work is informed by the environment and ranges from small intimate works to room-size installations. Years ago, Love began using books as a medium for art. In addition to making books herself, she realized another act of creation could come from disassembling them. The process of creating in this manner was integral to the work of art itself: the loving act of taking books apart, the repetition of ripping them, the sorting and categorizing of parts. A visual language emerged in the process. Though a rip may be attractive in and of itself, it often evokes disparate things of equal interest. Love
states, “By deconstructing books and reducing their form, contradictions in the formerly known order of the books are revealed. Suspension frees the viewer from traditional
interpretations of books and words, and offers new ways to decipher meaning in the repeating matter. It is through repetition that new visual systems emerge. Displaced and
repeating words, books, bark, rock formations, waves and landscape serve as alternative interpretations of systemic interrelated matter.”
The artist lives and works in Granville, Ohio, and is involved as an environmentalist leading a community tree planting initiative.