Sarah Zwerling came to speak to us for our last lecture of the semester. She began her career as an artist in art school only blowing glass. She got stuck in one material. Soon she decided she wanted to learn about using all the materials possible to make artwork. When she went to grad school she tried using the feelings of materials to talk about emotions and tried starying away from the pure physicality and form that mattered with her glasswork. During her years in grad school, she was asked by a proffessor why she was using materials such as silk and sugar to express emotions and why not use video instead. After being posed this question, Sarah took the suggestion.
Soon Sarah was doing installations combining her favorite elements, silk, sugar, and video in the form of animation, using them to evoke feelings. She also disovered that she liked doing prints. In her prints she combines the real and imagined and works with images of places that give her a certain feeling of being overwhelmed with the beauty of it and that remind her why she loves that place. Her video animations soon turned to combining this same theme of real and imagined from her prints.
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