Aminah robinson biography definition

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Artist

"For me, art is not a job or a career," Columbus, Ohio, artist Aminah Robinson told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "It's a way of life. Always has been." Many artists live by a similar credo, but few have immersed themselves in art as intensely as Robinson, who is reported to rise at 4 a.m.

to begin work and to continue working until midnight or beyond. Robinson works in her Columbus home and a small backyard structure she calls the Doll House.

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It would be inaccurate to say that Robinson has a studio, for her home is a studio and sometimes a medium—she makes art from scraps of material that she finds or that people bring to her, from doors, walls, porch components, and even floors. Her kitchen floor is a complex mosaic of materials that includes the baby teeth of her son, who committed suicide at age 27.

Yet Robinson's art has not focused primarily upon her own life.

Rather, she is creatively rooted in a specific place, to a aminah robinson biography definition3 ZANO