Jan 20: Sarah Sands

Sarah is a painter that at the beginning of her career started painting thing perspective. She would paint what she would see, especially what she would see. She did things like bathrooms, china cases, and people. From there she started painted thing like windows. This came from the whole western tradition. And the windows that she would paint would become mirror images. She spoke of someone name Lose Manedio, I think that’s how you spell it. And with Lose Manedio he had this whole mirror window thing as well that would go in to space. In her beginning work she related a lot of her work to him.
Well after a while she moved to Indiana and became a teacher. At that time she saw how her students were free, more free then she was, and she went with that. She said that she always put rules in with her painting and working with her student she realize that there really are no rules when it comes to art. At that point she started to draw/paint more freely. She had a time where she was drawing/painting lines that look like they were going inward and then outward. It was really nice. Her work now has a lot to do with like yard. She started with actually put a piece of yard on her paper and just started drawing/painting. And in her painting now you can see the lines intertwining with each other; in and out. I really enjoy those painting cause you can see that she was relax and was just drawing at that point, no rules. I could really relate to the part about the rules, because as a photographer I feel that I give myself a lot of rules. But now I see that there is no need for rules. I need to relax and just take pictures.