While growing up there are things, people, who you gravitate toward even before you know why. Friendships you attain, moments you have, that at the time are everyday but now you think of them always.
Sarah Washburn has been my closest friend for the majority of life. It is not necessarily that we liked the same things nor that we were much alike. Sarah and I seemed to simply take to the same environment even if that meant trouble.
We went to school together, studied under some of the same professors and just naturally grew as artists together. She a painter, I a writer. Our paths have crossed and merged so many times there simply came a time to bond and be.
Today I realize why we connected. Sarah and I are ying and yang. Sarah's incredible talent to capture light and shadow is beyond me. Her gifted patience has paid off. Her work seems to me as a confirming grip of the soft light and shadows that modestly live among us. Her paintings not only notice these highlights and down lights, but she masters them and forces them to come forward.
Sarah's work reminds me of Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin. Gauguin was never my favorite artist, but that does not mean he was not talented. Gauguin always made sure to "box" in his work. There was always a structure; a beginning and an end. I have never personally been comfortable with that notion, which simply reflects on my personality (loose ends).
Sarah utilizes colors that most likely do not exist, or are embellished from their natural state. I may be biased (probably) but knowing Sarah as long as I have is not cognitive, it is a natural attraction to talent.
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