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Sarah Aha Artist Statement
Sarah Aha is a creative alchemist and director of dreams, traversing the realms of imagination and emotion through her conceptual fine art photography and photo manipulation. Her early years as a lifelong artist were spent as a student of the stage, getting a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts and studying various styles of dance; she now brings her love of human form into a relationship with the beauty and spirit of the more-than-human world through her art.
Oftentimes the subject of her own lens, Sarah creates self-portraits and conceptual images that externalize her inner world. Collecting a trove of original photographs through her travels, explorations and collaborations, she weaves together a visual tapestry, employing a myriad of compositing and editing techniques, manipulating each element, and integrating evocative colours, textures, and personal nuances into each image.
Sarah uses a camera (and sometimes a drone) to connect with the world beyond her skin. Her mission is to help expand our sense of self to include all of life. Self-discovery and exploration, in this way, become a point of connection with the world instead of an endless black hole of aloneness.
CV
PUBLICATIONS:
Series: "If Water Was God"
Dodho Magazine online feature
Series: "If Water Was God"
Dodho Magazine online feature
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Series: If Water Was God
Fine Art Photo Awards, Nominee in Conceptual
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
Image: "Refractions"
Art Works, RVA, All Media Show, April 2023
Image: "But a Dream"
Art Works, RVA, All Media Show, May 2023
Images: "Fountain of Hippocrene", "Fish Don't Exist"
Art Works, RVA, All Media Show, June 2023
Fine Art Photo Awards, Nominee in Conceptual
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
Image: "Refractions"
Art Works, RVA, All Media Show, April 2023
Image: "But a Dream"
Art Works, RVA, All Media Show, May 2023
Images: "Fountain of Hippocrene", "Fish Don't Exist"
Art Works, RVA, All Media Show, June 2023
!["Refractions"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/d1e00410-8015-482b-9aab-735f0fd44a82/e81ee89d-d13f-44b6-b788-443ac81667c2_rw_1920.jpg?h=316ec9e8727094467b35c8c073bc8294)
"Refractions"
!["But a Dream"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/d1e00410-8015-482b-9aab-735f0fd44a82/bad79237-2f4b-40b0-8bcd-34d34a0b1f1f_rw_1920.jpg?h=65bf291db31788ee6c51d52cf49904de)
"But a Dream"
!["On High"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/d1e00410-8015-482b-9aab-735f0fd44a82/75caabe3-1d6f-4540-b7cb-34735c99c6f4_rw_1920.jpg?h=a708545db150968b6c7855e9dddab42e)
"On High"
!["Fountain of Hippocrene"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/d1e00410-8015-482b-9aab-735f0fd44a82/7e7f59fd-ed12-40e9-966f-d9f82dea9a51_rw_1920.jpg?h=9a308ac65daaf189ce8d0efa54e1dfb9)
"Fountain of Hippocrene"
!["Depollute Me"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/d1e00410-8015-482b-9aab-735f0fd44a82/0cdab95e-134a-4223-80e2-c4621f271c11_rw_1920.jpg?h=6215118b124594561e7ea51f6e2e85a0)
"Depollute Me"
!["Fish Don't Exist"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/d1e00410-8015-482b-9aab-735f0fd44a82/c1a129dc-cde9-43b3-8ae9-77ce2e73f8e5_rw_1920.jpg?h=ebb31f914e5510656dd8cefdc0b3f265)