As Uzumaki shared on her website, “the bright bold colors of my work reflect the innocence of my childhood and the loud palette of bodegas and fresh acrylic nails, among other things. I create and express as I piece together who I am within this world, that in the meantime, I am coating in soft faux fur.”Courtesy of Reebok Growing up as a young biracial girl, she felt the familiar, sharp pang of her Blackness being questioned. Her peers referred to her as the“whitest Black person they knew” “I remember walking up and down in front of the house, getting the courage, like, ‘Should I go in or should I not?’ Looking and seeing if I could see anything in the windows or whatever,” she says. Fortunately, her concerns didn’t stop her: “I went in," she adds, "and the rest is history.” This is one of the lighter anecdotes Amanda shared in herchat withPaper