Effort

Connie Moker-Wernikowski: "I'd received a grant to study with Amelia and apply it to my teaching, and it had an impact on my students and my own career as well. So I had sessions with Amelia for a whole year. We started with three sessions a week, and later went down to twice. In a way it was quite intimate. Often we’d have conversations. I especially remember that one day she was all excited about something one of her clients had said – “this is the hardest thing I’ve never done.”

Peter Randazzo: "She was astonishingly flexible. An example? Well, I mean, Barry Smith would have her in a lift above his shoulders, (so her crotch was in his face), and she’d bend backward and put her head right on her ass."

 
 
 
Amelia, Davidson studio, 2010; photo courtesy Ziyian Kwan

Amelia, Davidson studio, 2010; photo courtesy Ziyian Kwan