Cheselyn Amato is an interdisciplinary visual artist, experiential designer, sanctity-imbued space/place designer, and sound and spoken-text improvisational performer committed to the celebration and healing of self, others, humanity, the world, and the cosmos. She makes work to constantly rediscover love and loving and to keep the embers of transformational possibility stoked. All the work is made as cue, prop, and instigator of the experience of presence and sanctity amidst the contradiction and suffering that also attends to the human experience. She works across visual disciplines including two- and three-dimensional phenomena as well as time arts (sound, movement, color and light effects, projection, and video) to effect living circumstances where the ordinary and the extraordinary may interact.
Amato describes herself as an individual, a Vietnam-era/civil rights movement American, a fruits-of-feminism woman, a Post-Holocaust Jewess, a mother, daughter, sister, friend, artist, poet, teacher, celebrant, spiritual care provider, and global citizen. She asks: What is a way of being to fulfill all these callings? To find specific identity, to cultivate full consciousness, to fulfill obligations, to enjoy the delights of life, and to endure the toils of the everyday? Amato’s work reflects and chronicles her lifelong spiritual, aesthetic, and humanitarian journey to serve as best as she may as a light worker and doula for personal, social, societal, and global transformation and for the triumph of love, beauty, justice, and abundance.
