Statement

Sarah's Statement

Explorations of ancestry through familial archives have uncovered ironic reflections of the complexities of communities, ethnicities, and aesthetics within the United States. My works weave cultural representations of realities and myths into stable patterns replicating mathematics and the moments where logic falls apart. The missing spaces echo the glitches in binary codes and their constructs.  

“There are a couple of publications of mine that are missing. I can’t find them.” In the Karl series, aesthetic changes occur when the pattern is affected by numerical sequences shifting from a language of tradition to a language of science. The transition moves from a Native ancestry of one grandfather into a German archive of another grandfather through the commonality of their aerospace careers in the United States during the cold war era. Thusly, a psychological marriage develops between these men in the space that is missing.  

JUMP! moves through a psychological space questioning geographical locations of home in contrasts to places of origin and ancestry. Laid over the black and white silkscreens of the Chitimacha reservation are woven photographs. Each diptych has two silk-screens of the same image, covered with two different horizontal landscapes and a single figure occupying a hybrid space between the place of origin and the location of home. The images move through several dimensions of a psychophysical world.