Amelia Douglas Gallery

To May 5 Connective Tissue: Malina Sintnicolaas showcases a series of handmade sculptural works made of various traditional craft techniques, including ceramics, crocheted yarn and needle-felted wool. Sintnicolaas considers her work to be manifestations, transmutations or ‘petrifications’ of emotions into a physical form. She is drawn to ceramics and textiles as her central materials because of their contrast in properties, that they can be so strong yet so fragile, which correlates to the subject matter of
her work – exploring the idea
of ‘bodily memory’ and how emotions like trauma and anxiety can become imbedded in our cellular structure. She pulls from her own experience as a queer person who experiences C-PTSD and an autoimmune disorder.