live website

www.cargocollective.com/sarahparker

check it out y'all i done made a website all by my dern dumb self. it's moody and illegitimate but it's live.

Pictures from BFA

 above is the interactive piece i had in the show. The device is a stereoscopic viewer, and the images i created to be viewed through the viewer. Most of the images are of my young friend Sophia, we had a pretty awesome time chillin at her place playing with dolls and money and what not and through the device you the audience can view our experiences in 3D!

this piece is a series of hand sunken vessels dissected and reassembled. they sit on a small composition of painted backbones. The work is about eating dinner with the family; this is the backbone of early family relationships development.

view from below

a lesson on embroidery

 

i decided i wanted to learn embroidery. above is an inprocess image: i first started by scribbling all over a peice of drop cloth; these impulsive marks were the pattern i would follow throughout the work.

 detail.

sorry it's been too long

Sneak Peak!

Okay, so my BFA show has finally arrived. As of a week or two ago I installed my senior collection of works in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone NC! Below is a little sneak peak of the works exhibiting currently.

come check it out! the official BFA event will be the 11th of May, though you're welcome to check it out anytime during Turchin hours of operation.

 

above is an earring, made of cast bronze and brass. the chain is meant to loop through an open gauge  and the hook at the end clips to the circular form.

 

This piece (above front view, below back view) is my celebratory hair pin for successfully completing my BFA at ASU (pics of that to come).  the work is fabricated brass, woven brass, thread, and the stone is rose-colored fluorite.

 

above materials are: leather, blue thread, and an antique button. this is just a little fun piece that i did while experimenting with leather

 

this final piece is a favorite of mine, very comfortable. the materials are rubber, masonry nails painted with latex house paint, bound in antique thread. swa swa. the closure is a small black button that fits into a small slit in the rubber. 

finally i am getting these images

this is one of the works that i produced for the Radical Jewelry Makeover when they came to Boone. The purpose of their movement is to recycle old jewelry and give it a contemporary revival. the below work is comprised  of costume jewelry mostly including these materials- plastic, wire, pot metal , stone, plastic...plastic. pot metal. i had fun!

early stages of some up coming work...

in the middle stages of development yes, but in april i will be installing a show in the Turchin Center in boone alongside my peers in the 2013 BFA show. this is a shot of some of the sketches and various works i have currently in progress. my work for this series is based on the idea of innocence lost, confronting the various elements relative to the subject including self image, the early development of biases, gender dynamics, etc. also, all works will be more 3 dimensional than i have worked before, there will even be a pedestal piece. i'll keep posting as these works develop more.

okay