ST!LL BLOOM!NG: Artist Conversations | Episode #7 -Amanda Tkaczyk

In this episode of Artist Conversations, created alongside ST!LL BLOOMING: Emerging in Radiance, Rooted in Resilience, I sit down with poet, educator, and artist Amanda Tkaczyk to explore inherited wisdom, memory, and the layered truths carried within Caribbean sayings.

Her artwork True Say II: Speak Up or Sit Down invites viewers into a visual debate. The piece challenges fixed ideas of good and bad, instead suggesting that truth and falsehood, desirable and undesirable, are often contextual and culturally shaped.

Peonies bloom alongside so called weeds, reflecting the contradictions embedded in Caribbean proverbs and teachings. Viewers must tilt their heads to read the phrases woven throughout the composition, mirroring the mental shift required to engage perspe ...