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Amanda Zheng isn’t bound by medium or convention. Trained in graphic design, fluent in fine art, and drawn to disruption, her work unfolds in the space between structure and surrender. From steel installations to editorial books, she treats ambiguity like material. Something to shape, stretch, and subvert. In this interview, she opens up about obsession, surrender, and making space for creative tension. Step closer. Her world reveals itself slowly.

New York isn’t just where culture happens. It’s where it is born under pressure. From jazz in basements to oil on brick, from Sinatra’s skyline to Basquiat’s fury, the city doesn’t blend stories. It crashes them into something new. Icons are not made by luck here, but by survival. This is New York. Loud. Layered. Always in motion.

They called them muses. History called it genius. But the credit never matched the contribution. From Dora Maar to Camille Claudel, Lee Miller to Jean-Michel Basquiat, this piece unpacks how artists were erased, minimized, or mislabeled while others took the credit.