An Invitation into the Work
Explorations in Narrative, Perception, and the Space Beyond Language
This page offers a conceptual map of the lines of inquiry that shape Amanda Aileen Fisher’s interdisciplinary practice—across writing, performance, social practice, and installation. Each inquiry is a doorway into a different way of seeing, sensing, and relating. These are not just themes—they are living frameworks that shape how projects are created, facilitated, and shared.
For a deeper look at the questions, processes, and transformations that shape this practice…
Table of Contents & Forms
Follow a line by clicking its + or scroll through this page for the full exploration.
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Works exploring the voices, narratives, and impulses that shape our inner world.
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Works exploring listening beyond human language—interfacing with the body, land, and non-human intelligence.
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Works exploring color, sensation, and perception as forms of communication.
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Works exploring perception as a shaper of reality.
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Works exploring dualities, relationality, and the unseen.
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Works exploring the hierarchal nature of conceptual language and the selection of the literati.
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Works that reclaim expression through writing, speaking, and public presence.
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Works that invite writing into the wild—through play, presence, and public encounter.
Territories Inside the Mind
Works exploring the voices, narratives, and impulses that shape our inner world.
How do we discern what’s truly ours from what we’ve absorbed? These works examine the architecture of the inner voice—through writing, movement, and immersive environments—to surface hidden beliefs and reclaim inner space.
Includes:
Against, Upon, Beneath: Immersive Visual Installation, Sentence-Based Deprogramming / Coming 2025
Parts Divided: Participatory Performance, Writing & Movement-Based Exploration / First Iteration: November 2022 / Medellín, Colombia
Territories Inside the Mind: The Re-Mapping: Somatic writing and large-scale drawing workshop / Coming 2025
Dioses de México: Film Screening + Book Exchange: Collaborative Event, Film & Public Dialogue / February 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
The Voice of All Things
Works exploring listening beyond human language—interfacing with the body, land, and non-human intelligence.
Language lives beyond speech. This body of work invites participants into deep attunement with the internal and external world, accessing voice as vibration, instinct, and field.
Languages Beyond the Word
Works exploring color, sensation, and perception as forms of communication.
What happens when writing begins with texture, scent, rhythm, or tone? These projects bypass intellect to let language emerge from sensory experience—where perception becomes both medium and message.
Includes:
Ménage à Trois: Live Creative Jam / April 2022 / Todos Santos, Mexico
What Colors Are Your Rainbow?: Single-Session Workshop, Collaborative Prompt Generation, Handmade Book-Making / September 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Experiments in Writing: Workshop Series, Sensory Writing Laboratory / July-August 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Colors of Solitude: Participatory Installation, Synesthetic Writing Practice / Ongoing since September 2022 / Todos Santos, Mexico
The Lens
Works exploring perception as a shaper of reality.
This line of inquiry investigates how we see, and how the act of seeing alters what is seen. Each work employs tools to shift the gaze and reveal the multiplicity of meaning available through embodied attention. The lens is not just a metaphor, but a method—both filter and frame. When we notice where we are looking from, we begin to see differently.
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The Box: Participatory Installation, Sound & Writing-Based Ritual / June 2025 / Todos Santos, Mexico / Europe, Summer 2025
The Writing Lens (working title): Pedagogical Framework / In Development as Book
The Turning Point: Participatory Workshop, Book Arts / March 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Forgetting: Art Book / March 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Search for Seeing: Public Writing Intervention, Perception Game / September 2024, Todos Santos, Mexico / Digital Re-release: September 2025
Abre Tus Ojos: Participatory Game for Children / Cerritos, Mexico / March 2025
Please enjoy this quiet space between concepts. Thank you for exploring this deeply.
The Space Between
Works exploring dualities, relationality, and the unseen.
These works examine how perception is shaped by the filters we carry—linguistic, cultural, personal. By becoming aware of these filters, we can consciously remove or swap them, shifting the way we see what’s in front of us. When the filter dissolves, so does the sense of separation. What emerges is a movement toward unity, a merging into a single human concept.
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In Plain Sight: Live reading & bilingual handmade book / November 2024 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Between the Lines: Guided writing exchange / Ongoing since June 2024 / Todos Santos, Mexico
La Otra Lengua: Live exchange, social intervention / August—September 2022 / Todos Santos, Mexico
The Word
Works exploring the hierarchal nature of conceptual language and the selection of the literati.
Who is granted access to shape and disseminate our collective thinking? Who has the right to speak—and at what level, on what platform? Who authors The Word, and who subscribes to it? These works reimagine publishing as an act of creative autonomy and self-authorization.
Includes:
Conceptual Book Launch: Exhibition & Book Release / March 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Letters to the Self, for Remembering: Art Book / March 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Self-Publishing Goes DIY: Workshop / March 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Power of the Voice
Works that reclaim expression through writing, speaking, and public presence.
These works explore voice not only as sound, but as a force—something that carries personal truth, claims space, and reshapes the way we are seen and heard. This work asks: What happens when we stop silencing ourselves? What opens when we say the thing—first to ourselves and then out loud? What becomes possible when we let the authentic inner voice rise to the page, enter the room, and then release it into the world?
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The Practice: Social Practice Writing / Ongoing since 2022 / Todos Santos, Mexico & online
The Power of the Breath: Collaborative Vocal & Public Speaking Workshop / November 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Staged: Collaborative Vocal & Public Speaking Workshop / June 2024 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Abre Tu Boca Open Stage: Performance & Participatory Work / Ongoing since 2022 / Todos Santos, Mexico
The Heat, A Zine: Community Publishing / May 2024 / Todos Santos, Mexico
In Her Words, A Curated Stage of Writing: Publishing & Curation / March 2025 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Word as Play
Works that invite writing into the wild—through play, presence, and public encounter.
Here, writing becomes participatory, place-based, and alive. These projects blend spontaneity with form, letting the world co-author the work in real time.
Includes:
Writing Safari: Public Writing Intervention / 2023–Present / Todos Santos, Mexico
The HemmingWay: Place-Based Participatory Writing Encounter / June 2024 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Waffles & Word Play: Interactive Writing Salon / April 2023 / Todos Santos, Mexico
Practice-Based Extensions:
Ready to engage these inquiries directly? Not just ideas—these frameworks live through action. Visit the Writing Portal for guided writing practices rooted in the inquiries above.
Philosophical Framework
Explorations in Narrative, Perception, and the Space Beyond Language
An invitation into the questions, processes, and transformations that shape my practice
How do we come into contact with our inner narrative?
And once we arrive, how do we rewrite it?
My work accesses the space beyond conceptual language—The Word—by journeying you inside it.
How do we enter? By breaking the barrier itself.
The Word—our world of mental constructs—is both doorway and boundary.
It both binds the mind and also serves as its grounding point.
Thus, it is our entry point into the subconscious inner landscape—and the exit for the return.
In the space between, we explore.
We experiment.
We try new arrangements.
We arrive at new meaning.
Each body of work I create is a different entry point into this process—
a line of inquiry that opens a new doorway into the subconscious.
These works offer tools to engage with languages that exist beyond The Word—
our sense languages, connected to an inner knowing accessed through perception.
When we momentarily quiet the analytical mind, allowing it to serve as a bridge rather than a barrier,
we open pathways for embodied understanding.
The body becomes the source of insight—
and when translated back into words,
The Word itself shifts.
By engaging with these works,
you leave reconfigured—
with heightened awareness of your inner mechanics.
The subconscious integrates.
The narrative transforms.