Sarah Kudirka

My recent drawings in ink on paper feature repeated organic shapes akin to the stones in a wall or the stitches in a loosely-woven fabric. About how we as people are the same but different and need to make room for one another. I first made drawings like this when I was trying to find a little space each day to make something and striving to find beauty in the constant repetition involved in caring for our young baby. In the context of Black Lives Matter, I have begun to think of them as being perhaps also about the everyday actions we can take to embody and further anti-racism.

Included here are my oil over instax sketches of cups, made with pencil through the wet paint. Earlier drawings (a few also shown) were more highly-worked finished images in pencil on heavy paper, often focused on furniture and decorative/domestic object motifs.