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About

the SARAH TREANOR

Artist My work explores personal growth, spirituality, and a relationship to nature.

I have a deep curiosity about the moments of transformation in our lives… the
times of endings and beginnings, and the ways we as humans continually reinvent
ourselves.

Transformation presents us with so many emotions - grief, fear, and anger, but also
hope, empowerment and joy.

I use creativity as a tool to build meaning and beauty from the complexities of life’s
changes… to continually see things, and myself, from new viewpoints.

About

the I came into this residency from being in a stuck place artistically. My goal was to
try some new mediums while focusing on self portraits - hoping this would reignite
Work my joy and reconnect me with myself. The results were all I’d hoped for and more.

The new mediums I explored - eco-printing and assemblage art - brought me
two opposing experiences. Ecoprints brought a light, playful joy back into my TOP RIGHT:
artmaking! I fell in love with this process of allowing nature to be a part of the THE WAY HOME
ENCAUSTIC,
creating. In contrast, assemblage art had me doing some deep soul searching and PHOTOGRAPHY
visiting my past in powerful ways. In between those was a marriage of these new AND VARIOUS
FOUND OBJECTS
mediums with my existing mediums of photography and encaustic. 13X17”
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TOP LEFT:
The new ways I explored photographic self portraits with wax and eco-prints PORTRAIT STUDY
was especially cathartic. This body of work represents reinvention. The idea of NO.2 ENCAUSTIC,
PHOTOGRAPHY,
rediscovering ourselves over and over in our lifetimes, each time finding more ECO-PRINT
TRANSFER 6X6”
value, depth, and beauty. NFS
TOP CENTER:
PORTRAIT STUDY
It was a process of uncovering parts of myself that had gotten buried beneath NO.5 ENCAUSTIC,
layers of doubt, loss, busyness and fear. A process of remembering play, and PHOTOGRAPHY,
ECO-PRINT
allowing myself to let go of the idea of control. This work is both a telling and a TRANSFER 6X6”
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retelling of so many pieces of me.
BOTTOM:
THE WAY HOME
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