Amaaya is an artist and writer. Their work mostly experiments with themes of sexuality and sensuality, the politics of body and gender, and the ideas of the self as a private, social, and (more recently) ecological being—always transient, always in flux. It is based around thoughts of identity, belonging, and becoming. Queerness plays a significant role in these explorations, including the queering of more-than-human relationships, often in the form of de/reconstruction and posthumanist figuration. They strive towards feeling, understanding, and expressing these various intersections to fulfill desires for a deeper intra- and inter-personality. Their fields of research inform their art practice and their art practice in turn fuels their research—they aim to balance the two in symbiosis. They hold a Bachelor of Arts Hons Degree in Visual Culture and Critical Theory from OCAD University.
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