AMATA DOODS
I am an abstract ink artist, illustrator, calligrapher, painter, printmaker, and events facilitator. My work is deeply informed by Sufism and the practices that work to decrease the ego and increase awareness of the invisible energy and power surrounding us.
I am currently showing work in the CAM Connect Showcase exhibit at the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum and Virtuoso Collective gallery. I am a Regional Arts Commission 2025 Artist Support grant recipient and a studio artist with Screwed Arts Collective.
I am the facilitator of Go With The Flow, a monthly meetup creating a space for judgement-free drawing alongside beats/electronic music for artists of all levels.
Making art as "Amata Doods" is all about flow:
I am an abstract ink artist, illustrator, calligrapher, painter, printmaker, and events facilitator. My work is deeply informed by Sufism and the practices that work to decrease the ego and increase awareness of the invisible energy and power surrounding us.
I am currently showing work in the CAM Connect Showcase exhibit at the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum and Virtuoso Collective gallery. I am a Regional Arts Commission 2025 Artist Support grant recipient and a studio artist with Screwed Arts Collective.
I am the facilitator of Go With The Flow, a monthly meetup creating a space for judgement-free drawing alongside beats/electronic music for artists of all levels.
Making art as "Amata Doods" is all about flow:
- Adding the complex to the minimal
- Meditating on the formation of consciousness and the invisible universe
- Illustrating energy through the abstract
My style is created through a stream of consciousness. A meditation. To me, it's an ode to creation. Cells and tissues are nothing if not repetitive. But if you let them build, suddenly a consciousness emerges. This is how my work forms. Sketching this way, I try to pose the idea that maybe Creation values the invisible building materials that form the bodies of conscious beings a little more than most art acknowledges. I want to accentuate these small essential things and the energy they bring.
There are also pieces that are symbollic representations for PTSD, panic disorder, and overstimulation. I want folks to be able to connect with these feelings in a palatable, non-triggering way through the use of abstract representation.
I also intentionally create visual depth shifts throughout most pieces. Ideally there should be multiple ways to interpret things throughout the piece. I want your eyes to move and explore with curiosity and enjoy the details.
I am also studying classical Arabic calligraphy. I want to bring the precision linework of Arabic calligraphy into more spaces and let more people understand this artform is relevant to all who can appreciate beauty, not just to native Arabic speakers or Muslim worshipers.
