Sara Silks

Artist Statement

In the Space of an Echo

Flying to New York City in early March was a tense and uncertain experience. Suddenly, I became aware of how careful I needed to be with my hands and, and how strange it was to confine my motions.  I journaled ways I might use gesture, color and light in photograms to represent my feelings. The mystery and magic of light inspires me to expand intrinsically personal expressions into investigations of fragility, vulnerability, and determination. As I layered imprints onto photograms, my feelings about our precarious existence somehow became part of each piece, like words become sentences, paragraphs, and ultimately stories. 

Artist Bio

Fine Art Photographer Sara Silks is known internationally for her work in alternative processes. Her work investigates concepts of fragility, vulnerability, and determination. Her work is driven and informed by her realizations and recognition that time and memory are precious commodities. By using darkroom printing processes, large and small format photography, and digital tools in her work, these alternative and historical photographic processes allow Silks to make personal statements through her practice of image making.

In the Space of an Echo 1 (lumena)

In the Space of an Echo 3 (nitrile)

In the Space of an Echo 4 (breathless)