About this site

Amanda Gilmore is an artist and software engineer based in Philadelphia, PA. Most of what you will find here is my fiber art, and the occasional blog post.

✨ Thanks for your interest in what I make. ✨ I view art as a kind of nonverbal conversation, and it's a joy to join you in that conversation. As someone who is self-diagnosed (after a lot of reading and research) on the lower-support end of the Autism spectrum, it's become more apparent why visual artistic communication has been important to me my whole life.

A person's subjective internal experience can be hard to convey verbally-sometimes the words don't exist for a particularly subtle emotion. It's a bit like a color gradient scale. We have a word for "purple", but there are so many other kinds of purple on this image, and they don't all have a word.

I try to convey the subtle parts of internal experience that fall in those fuzzy spaces between "purple" and "acqua" and "green", so to speak. I hope you enjoy.