ABOUT SARA

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I began exploring photography at age nineteen and it has continued to inform and enrich my life in ways I never could have imagined. Yet in my twenties I also discovered ceramics and pursued that for ten years until I found myself painting on pots with colored slips and realized that I didn’t know how to paint. Since I couldn’t draw and painting was even more revered as an art form, I figured I just wasn’t cut out to be an “artist” and should stick to the more technical crafts. But at that point I challenged myself to first do the exercises in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Edwards) and to study painting in Bali with a traditional master (Mokoh) and I soon shifted to canvas and didn’t return to clay until just recently when the pandemic ushered me back to clay once more.

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Now, having pursued many forms of creativity, I’m convinced that all artistic expression (from writing to dance) is a means of communication and self-expression and in every mode our unique personal aesthetic and our core values telegraph through.

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My journey into mixed media began in the late 90’s after studying digital photography/Photoshop with Ted Orland and taking workshops with Holly Roberts, both inspirational artists and extraordinary teachers. Since then I have produced many unique series, starting with Chinese Women: Bound and Determined and including Subway Reflexions, Aerials, Blurred Landscapes, Architecture Restructured, and more. In 2012, I started an interactive sculptural installation: Stonewalled in Jerusalem and after three years, I began the series American Women: Birds of im/Migration. I have continued to work on digital photographic collages/prints over the past decade and all of my pieces have been scanned for printing. The latest series, Offerings: Human/Nature, deals with the imminent threats to our planet and our humanity. 

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