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februARY 4, 2021

“HERE, AGAIN.” HAS SOLD OUT

I am excited (and a little surprised!) to announce that all the pieces have already been sold! They will continue to be on display through the end of February, and then be off to new homes. Some will be available as prints in the coming months, and possibly cards. It’s strange to have such empty walls in the studio, even though that was my goal for this show.

I finished the body of work at the end of December, installed it at the beginning of January, and have taken the month to this point away from any serious creative practice. Like clockwork, though, I am already feeling antsy, and have been brainstorming ideas and thumbnails for my next series, “Other Worlds.”

Follow me on instagram @sarah_boots for announcements about prints and small work sales!

January 1, 2021

“Here, Again,” Recent Work up at Blackbird on Bainbridge Island

A group of 15 pieces is showing for sale at Blackbird on Winslow Way. Here is the statement for the show:

“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?”

(Sergio Chejfec, The Planets)

When does the geometry of reality become subjective experience? What are the mathematics of our stories? If death is our only answer, what equation are we all living?

Through explorations of family, consciousness, and death, this series of work examines the alchemy of time and the transmutation of identity and memory. Layers accumulate to both build and destroy the image, acting as focal point and obfuscation in turn, as a memory unfolding within the viewer's attention. Interactions between texture and light carry time and dimension, changing each experience of viewing, mirroring our own mobility of identity. Through a process-oriented practice, I investigate the voyeurism of memory and the intrusiveness, fantasy, and longing of nostalgia.

What does time give to us, and what does it take away, from our heartbreak to our selfhood?

What is it that is left?

New and updated pieces will be documented and available here following the closing of the show at the end of February.

may 1, 2020

Bainbridge Island Art walk

2020, we’re in lockdown, but I am doing the art walk virtually! I transcribed the introduction:

“Hi everyone, thanks for joining us tonight, I am so excited to be able to share in this community even in this time of isolation- maybe especially during this time. My name is Sarah Cameron, I moved to Bainbridge Island 5 years ago from Nashville, TN.

I grew up a third generation painter on an old family farm in Mississippi, and like a lot of southern artists, I am a little obsessed with myth, death, place, and time. One of my favorite things to do when I was little was to go rummaging through my mother's boxes of family photos. It was a version of time travel- I saw the people in my family in their lives outside of my existence; I saw the land on which I lived and knew so well as a place almost unrecognizable. I loved this feeling of visiting an alternate reality, the feeling of something large and true hidden underneath or behind a veil of time.

In college, I revisited this habit, and brought back some photos to my studio. I found some of the most careless and chaotic snapshots held these tiny arrangements, maybe in the background, or a corner, that carried a whole feeling for the time and place in which they were taken. This became the seed of my process.”