Exactly the way its Seen

                  For many observers, art has a deeper meaning from artists creating pieces with a narrative to express, however, that’s not the case for Sarah Crowner. Sarah has explored painting and sculpture which continued to sowing when she needed a new direction. At one-point, painting for Sarah did not hold the same interest until she was working on a sculpture and figured out what about painting and ceramics had held her interest. Within both mediums she had found that the immediate response of the process, being in the moment of each piece that changed her mind to go back to into painting. However, before that had occurred to her, she made many ceramic pieces and turned away from painting to try and achieve the connection she once had with art in the beginning. 

                  In the beginning of her career, art had to portray a story, an important moment in life, and no previous piece remade into another. Everything that she had created continued on the path of traditional art, how academia follows and teaches tradition. Nonetheless, the abstract and the pieces talking for themselves drew her interest. The story, the moment is now taken away and replaced with the shapes being themselves, represent themselves, and the colors not signifying any emotion or untold words. The pieces that she creates goes through a process of painting the canvas cutting the canvas or vice versa and then sowing them together to be followed by stretching onto the canvas. Once the pieces are stretched and the artworks come together but not all make it to the final cut. Since all of her pieces can only be seen at the end 9/10 do not make it to the viewer because they do not feel or embody what her goal is. 

                  The goal she is trying to achieve once more is not a story to tell but what the art itself can reveal, the movement of the strokes she makes, the color chooses to go with the stitching, the shapes, and the pattern. Her belief, theme is to allow the material to speak for itself, not a simple concept, as Sarah had put it, “it passes through from an idea to an actual object, a means to an end”. The pieces should be looked at as a body not a flat, one dimensional story which was her thinking in the beginning. Now, she wants the audiences’ body engaged with each piece, to walk around, get close, she how the light changes the color, the perspective, how one simple shape can basically have a body in itself through multiply angles. 

                  The engagement of the body and the materials having to speak for themselves is an interesting twist on the art. Usually, for me at least, the body of the viewer is not in my mind and neither do I have the paint or charcoal pencil speak for itself, the scene or moment as in traditional pieces is what I have speak. However, the idea that the material can speak and act on its own is quite intriguing, how is does the material only speak without the piece as a whole. Her process of basically going with the flow, with less stress on the tradition seems less stressful and more on her enjoying the work she does with no worries on how anyone will react to the pieces, it’s even seen through the art. Her carefree expression is presented within her pieces the smoothness of the paint, the curvature of the lines, everything within her new pieces. Sarah’s ideal, belief on how art, her pieces at least, should be looked at give art a new direction a carefree direction where what is seen is what it is.