Sarah Smith
Installing The Sustained Illusion
mixed media installation at Ampersand International Arts
San Francisco, 2005.
Approx. 32' x 10'

Sarah Smith
Installation view of The Sustained Illusion, 2004
mixed media installation at Ampersand International Arts
San Francisco, 2005.
Approx. 32' x 10'

Sarah Smith
Installation view of The Sustained Illusion
mixed media installation at Ampersand International Arts
San Francisco, 2005.
Stairway installation of arrows cut from plaster lath.

In capitalist America today, nature is dead. Tamed, clear cut, paved over, polluted or lost forever by Man's hand. The destructive nature of how we live today fosters a deep longing for a return to a time and place where the land was unspoiled. I try to make something tangible out of that nostalgia by piecing together decorative and narrative elements with the mood and mystery of old images to create allegorical pieces dense with associations.