Post election in two word snippets

Marriage equality. 


Legalize it. 


Woman senator. 


Black president. 


Moving forward. 


Justice pursued. 


America's beautiful.

Fall in love, get inspired, make art... or babies? My thoughts on Solbeam.

I like everything about this except... why make babies OR art? I know plenty of men and women who are awesome artists and parents. One woman in particular told me her painting improved after she experienced motherhood. I know some folks are weary of or even downright against breeding, but making babies isn't like failing a test or falling in hate and it certainly isn't the antithesis of art-making. Even a physically challenged parent of six could make art if it is their will.

...

After writing the above, I was curious to know who Solbeam was, imagining an older person in paint-crusted coveralls sitting alone with his coffee in a sunny corner of their living room reliving a summer filled with hedonistic joy. So I did a little Googling. It turns out Solbeam is a blogger who has been on an incredible voyage. Someone I would, without needing to meet her and only after a quick browse on her website, call a kindred spirit. Her message to the would-be and fellow wanderers of the world is:
"engage your sense of wonder and think creatively with your life path; it’s your own to create and color."

And then I noticed she blogged about her own pregnancy in March 2012 here:
"Then I thought, surely, pregnancy would [slow me down]. I could say baby would – but those would be poor odds, now, wouldn’t they?"

So what of Solbeam's famed, oft tweeted quote? It is now on magnets adhered to so many fridges, sold on greeting cards in bookshops across the country... aligning parenthood with not dancing and with lying and cheating. These must be the words of a 20-something with a ticket somewhere new and a camera, too afraid of an anchor to consider mothering. If so, I feel you, sister.

Wouldn't it be great if Solbeam could edit this quote, perhaps with a new-found outlook... I would imagine it looks something like this:

Fall in love, get inspired, ace a test, make art and music, write, speak the truth, dance everywhere. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. Enjoy the ride... and share it all with the next generation.

Or maybe it is just my outlook that has changed.

Art from the heart,
Sarah

"Telephone Relics" covered by Boston.com

The following review of my upcoming show, Telephone Relics, was taken from this website-- Boston.com's Allston Brighton news: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/allston_brighton/2012/10/photos_documenting_payphone_de.html?camp

Photos documenting payphone decline to be exhibited at Brighton library

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(Sarah Berry) Public payphones in Boston photographed on Sept. 11, 2008.

By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent

An Allston artist’s photographs documenting the decline of public payphones will be on display next month at the Faneuil Branch of the Boston Public Library in Brighton’s Oak Square.
The “Telephone Relics” exhibition by Sarah Berry “very poignantly captures the changing history of telecom, convenience, functionally and design that has resulted in streetscape artifacts that linger as if they still had a purpose,” said a statement from the newly-founded, local nonprofit Unbound Visual Arts, Inc.
“As a result of the evolution from wired and wall-mounted phones to personal and pocket-sized, most people realize that public telephones, once prominent throughout the world, have significantly declined in usage,” the statement continued. “Sarah Berry has not only noticed this 21st century historical trend but presents us with artistic visual evidence.”
The exhibition debuts Saturday, Nov. 3 during a reception and artist discussion from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., the art organization said in an announcement. The gallery will be on display through Nov. 30.

Berry received a master’s of science in arts administration at Boston University, is program manager of The Art Connection in Boston and leads photography workshops through the city’s parks department, according to the nonprofit.
Her exhibits have appeared at BU, Boston City Hall, and in galleries in Washington D.C. and Fairfax, Va.
E-mail Matt Rocheleau at mjrochele@gmail.com.
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Photographing the Guy Mendilow Ensemble

Tonight I had the pleasure of shooting the CD release performance of the Guy Mendilow Ensemble at Harvard University. The excitement, raw skill, and soul on stage was evident to everyone. Guy was a fantastic story teller and everyone on stage was a masterful musician.

There is really not much I like better than being surrounded by live music and seeing it come alive in my camera. Enjoy the photographs and please listen to the new album:

http://www.guymendilow.com/home.html

Painting Over the Past

A pay phone removed

From a community college corridor.

Now chatter can be overheard 

As told through cellphones 

 And into nearly invisible bluetooth devices,

Taking up no more than an ear-width of space.

The pay phone hardware is 

Whitewashed 

But still here.

For the Birds

Between Branches

Harvest

Photos taken from my front porch, September 2012

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Art & Bed. Ode to Van Gogh.

A magnet I bought in 2005 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam bears this quote from the artist under an image of The Bedroom, 1888, Oil on Canvas, 72 X 90 cm.


"The best pictures are those one dreams about while smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done." 

Tonight I fought my desire to dream up art I wanted to make but didn't. Tonight I finally have an answer for Vincent...


The best nights of sleep are the ones I will forget I missed because I was up making art.