Sarah Bush

Time is a River

Digital Collage Infused onto Brushed Metal.

This photograph shows the commissioned digital collage Time is a River created for and installed in the lobby of the New York Organ Donor Network in Manhattan.

It is 4' x 8' grid of 16" squares and has sheer matte finish which allows the brushed metal surface to shine through.

The New York Organ Donor Network does great work and it was an honor to be commissioned to create this piece for them.

Tepoztlán

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This photograph shows the digital collage Tepotzlan in a room interior. Each collage has a sheer matte finish which allows the brushed metal surface to shine through.

The Way Through

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We all have our personal forest we are picking our way through. Draw a map and keep going.

Spring Diptych

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Sometimes when Spring doesn't show up, you have to conjure it up yourself.

Tropical Morning

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This piece is about a trip to Florida--the light, colors, flora, and fauna.

Ancient Ocean

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This piece was inspired by hikes I used to take when I lived in the mountains outside of Albuquerque. The long vistas of the high desert landscape always looked the bottom of the ocean to me--and of course, they once were. What will be what in another million years?

Chagall Dreams

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I started this piece with a section of one of my weather drawings. I find a lot of emotion in simple symbolic drawings. As I began to layer the house images with other collage pieces, it felt like I was creating a dreamy old world, storybook villagescape--filled with families and stories and Chagall-esque possibilities.

Inner Strength

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Everyday objects often have a very totem or iconic quality for me--I like the idea of spirit being in everything, giving us what we need, and emerging whenever we're willing to see it.

The Long Now

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The Long Now is endless and permanent--a stillness. It's always available yet so hard for us to experience. This piece is sort of my sun goddess tribute to that hard-to-grasp idea, because I'm so intrigued by the power of a symbol.

Starting Over

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I love primitive dolls and toys and I started this piece with a photo of a yarn horse--she's fragile, a little exposed and unsure, but moving forward as she is.The text in the image is her personal history--unreadable, but always present.

But I am the Fire

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The dragonfly here is both rising up and being lifted into the perfection of the glowing circle--no one does it alone. Hope. Love. Transformation.

Passage

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This piece has a primal feeling for me--the circles coming out toward you, the large shape invoking a skull image, the spear in the back--fossils, mystery, spirit--the feeling of piecing together a story from bits of imagery, evidence, shards from the past.

Tepoztlán

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This piece started with a photograph I took in Mexico--I liked the traveling orderliness of the architectural lines of the stairway, the domesticity of the hanging plant and the doorway, but I wanted to offset that with implications of a larger order/chaos  that we aren't so sure about.

I tried to express that by embedding fast lines from a blind drawing into the center and creating a peeled back corner in the top right of the piece to reveal the larger, indeciferable hugeness lying behind and beyond our own fragile, human veneer of order.

Looking Back

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This piece is kind of a companion to Lion Totem, but it's about the lure of the past, what we bring forward, and the totemic power of history and how it defines us.

Out of Africa

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As I pieced this collage together, it felt like an African landscape, the place from where we all come. I love African art--the big patterns and boldness. Hands are a recurring emotional motif for me--I added my glove drawing to create a reaching energy--both struggle and possibility. The letters embedded inside them are the building blocks of language and our human-ness.

Winterscape

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Winter light. The crunch of snow and dry weeds. Clear cold air. Silence.

That Carries Me Along

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This piece is about time, music and the power of repetition. "That Carries Me Along" is from a favorite Borges quote--and the whole line is "Time is  a river that carries me along..."

Boletos

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'Boletos' means 'tickets' in Spanish. I was thinking about the personal implications of taking the risk to cross the border--the fear, the lack of control people must feel, and the real life difficulties that drive people to take that risk.

Stonehenge

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I like to photograph mundane objects and take them out of context and elevate them to something that feels larger/totemic--I want them to have a presence and feel like they're breathing. The dates on the right are from old family letters on my mother's side that go back to the American Revolution.

Matrix

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The Feminine Principle.

The Fire That Consumes Me

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This piece is also inspired by a favorite Borges quote...and "The Fire that Consumes Me" from the title is, again, time. I'm a huge poetry fan and it's often an underlying theme in my work.

Backyard Boddhisatva

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This is a joyful piece for me. A Boddhisatva is an enlightened being that sticks around to help the rest of us along. I like to think they're everywhere in our lives, even when we don't recognize them.