Hornby Island Artists
Sara works predominately in print media and drawing. She creates images that animate a poetic understanding of organs, bones, tissues and fluids of the interior body. In the creation of these prints and drawings she collages disparate images together composing metaphors to illustrate her own sense of body. Found drawings of flowers and tails and megaphones are integrated with appropriated dissection diagrams of the physical interior. The medical illustrations come from historical and contemporary anatomy books. The internal body is a concealed space that is only accessible to one through sensations and imagination. Dissection drawings allow the artist to imagine and visualize the invisible interior of her body. She takes these anatomy diagrams to strip them of their systematic labeling and redraw the organs and bones in her own hand. The corporeal parts morph into foreign species and objects: the heart becomes a megaphone; a spine grows petals; intestines morph into a tail. Her renderings depart from the function of medical illustration to offer a poetic, sensorial reading of the interior. Sara has obtained her M.F.A Degree from York University. In 2000, Sara left Toronto in search of a land of beauty. In the summer of 2001 her travels brought her to Hornby and she fell in love with the Island. The artist is now a resident here. She finds the inspiring landscape and the supportive community offer her space to settle in and focus on her creative endeavors.
Sara's work can be found at The Island Gallery
