I continued the project’s work as I returned to the west coast by diving deep into the writing and audio recording process of the current work-in-progress format for the book, The Nature Of Refuge. This work is detailed in About The Nature Of Refuge. I began this in the spring of 2017 and in the fall of the same year, I had dismantled and left my island sanctuary in exchange of pursuing the next phase of the project where I traveled across the US for two years in my truck-house interviewing American feminine identifying and non-binary individuals about their experiences with vulnerability and sanctuary. I wrote about and photographed what I was seeing and experiencing in the natural world and how it paralleled what was sparking for me on a social and political level in the rest of the US.

I immersed myself in the concepts of refuge and sanctuary through living in nature, I lived in my art completely each day. Here are the beginnings of my project , where I built and created my own sanctuary in which I lived in a military tent in a ravine in the woods on Orcas Island, WA for 5 months. My current work and passion is The Nature Of Refuge. I want my work to motivate people towards love of others and self acceptance. I want my work to be a motivational force, I want it to propel or to take root, galvanize people into their own action of truth. All of these disciplines I have incorporated to convey that complexity of interconnection and how it propels humans forward.īringing strangers together through my work and seeing the spontaneous connections emerge, this is a prime motivator. Over the years I have incorporated all these artistic disciplines into my work as I am fascinated with where stories interconnect. I love the free-for-all-weird of performance art. I studied photography graduating in 2003 and that has been a main through line as a working artist in the narratives that I have been compelled to tell over the past twenty years. My name is Sara Brown and I am a multi-media artist.

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