Bio: Amanda Spayd, a resident of semi-rural Northern Ohio, is a designer, artist, and fragrance alchemist. Her love of texture, antiques, color, and the natural world, combined with an obsessive attention to detail are used to their full advantage when creating her mixed-media sculptures. At once endearing and unsettling, her fabric creatures evoke ideas of cast-off children's toys and ill-concieved taxidermy experiments with human teeth. Amanda creates environments for many of her creatures, giving them permanent homes which hold decorations, related objects, and their personal accoutrements on display. When she's not sitting in front of her hand-cranked antique sewing machine, painting glass eyes, or boiling up homemade black walnut dye in the backyard, Amanda can be found trolling antique stores for beautifully decayed objects, formulating handmade perfumes and soaps, brewing the perfect cup of coffee, or playing a vintage analog synthesizer in her husband's music project.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandilouise/collections/72157606686175986/

[555x698]

[599x699]
[443x699]
[445x698]
[598x699]
[382x699]
[470x698]
[425x698]
[398x698]