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.
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PUBLICATIONS:
Series: "If Water Was God"
Dodho Magazine online feature
Series: "If Water Was God"
Dodho Magazine online feature
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"
"But a Dream"
"On High"
"Fountain of Hippocrene"
"Depollute Me"
