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We Will Breathe Under Water

1 year ago by sarahzarstudio “A gavotte of dust-motes / came to replace my seeing.” #JohnAshbery “Wakefulness” (Wakefulness, 1998) R.I.P. John
2 years ago by sarahzarstudio Coffee and rain, what would we do without you? I once knew a funny little man who would walk out into the rain and gleefully shout, "Bloody miserable weather out today, isn't it!" To any drenched or umbrella-ed soul who passed. The obvious joy in his scraggly voice always caused a sort of truce to transpire between the torrents and their targets. He never wore shoes, and though quite old, seemed ageless. #suspendedanimation
2 years ago by sarahzarstudio Looking into the future of the world's great cities? Try Crystal-Balls-of-Steel!
2 years ago by sarahzarstudio
1 year ago by sarahzarstudio A great mentor of mine once said, "Art is an act of abbreviation. So, expose yourself to something immense, intricate, inscrutable, or infinite, then pick up a brush... In all things, the architecture of the invisible lurks."
1 month ago by sarahzarstudio This is Rose Zar, my grandmother. She was a Holocaust survivor who hid in plain sight using nothing but a false identity and her razor-fine wits. Even before the war, she was a member of the underground Jewish resistance. After surviving horrors I can’t begin to fathom, she joined up with her childhood sweetheart to rescue and heal a group of over a hundred orphans. They taught and cared for the children until they could be placed in new homes overseas, many traveling on the famous ship, The Exodus. Then the two of them started over from scratch in America,
2 years ago by sarahzarstudio (Detail from Sphinx Rehabilitation Project). Over the last few months, I've sent most of my larger pieces off to their new homes, and soon it will be my turn to follow in their footsteps. For now, pardon any delayed communications. I'm communing with the boxes...
1 year ago by sarahzarstudio “Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you.” - John Ashbery
2 years ago by sarahzarstudio
2 years ago by sarahzarstudio Unleavened - not made light. (...by air or some other agent.)
5 months ago by sarahzarstudio “When diving into a stranger hear the splash of your own veins.”
3 months ago by sarahzarstudio Dear Fiends, my elfin* art book, Riddled With Spots, is now available @theMuseumOfModernArt , and costs only a palindrome. I am very excited to see it sandwiched between bodies/works from Kiki Smith, Salvador Dalí, Judy Chicago, Miyazaki, and Omar Kholeif! If you find yourself in NYC, looking for a gift for an artist, this one is full of hidden messages to discover. There is also a hinty codex online somewhere (a pdf with notes), for any teachers out there who wish to use it to engage Others in acts of symbolic perception. MoMA Bookstore photo courtesy of @btschweda , A. Keck Press.

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