My experience with studying Butoh soon became for me a meditation, and that is how I paint. I focus on the lost and wandering self that I began to discover through Butoh, and I explore the darkness in order to reclaim the sacred and the forbidden. My work is also touched by my enthusiasm for the ecstatic chaos of Nature, as well as the elemental qualities of the Native American Sweat ritual (in addition to the light and darkness of the sweat lodge itself). My art helps me confront my fear of loss -- loss of control, loss of innocence, loss of youth and, ultimately, my fear of death. By integrating them into my work, they became my allies.Sarah Spain
June 1996
FULLMOON PERFORMANCE 1992.
PAINTINGS.
