Amelia Rosenberg

My artwork is a reckoning rooted in lineage, survival, and generational connection. Through ceramics I grapple with my ability to endure as an echo of my German Jewish family's survival through WWII. By engaging with Flora and Fauna found in Bavarian folk textiles produced by my great grandfather Moritz Wallach and his brothers Julius and Max, I illustrate my understanding of this history and its relationship to my own lived experience. The Wallach brothers were established as some of Munich’s most prized artisans before the Holocaust, and their legacy remains entwined with creative and personal upheaval post-exile. I employ folk creatures such as goats, geese, and rabbits to illustrate human reactions under distress as very animal and instinctual. Creating animals who reflect human experiences connects personal grief with universal reaction – in today's global sociopolitical climate I find this to be a powerful and expressive tool. The descriptive features of these folk creatures such as horns, webbed feet, and long ears have become mirrors of my bodily understanding of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses. Through the creation of this art, I revel in the translation of experience between generations, and I work to understand how truly close we are.
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