Beneath the Surface is a series of audiovisual meditations that were created during the spring of 2020 and explore how visual arts practice and meditation practice both encourage a regrounding in the body as a portal to deeper self-reflection. Presented by RedLine Contemporary in early 2021, this offering was part of Checking In, a state-wide collaboration in Colorado designed to provide platforms of connection between artists, curators, businesses, cultural institutions, and communities who have been in isolation but collectively have space or creative works to offer and/or exchange.
Color Field Denver was a colorful, site-specific installation of roughly 7,000 painted stakes in the seedbeds of the historic Lily Pond in Denver’s City Park. This collaborative project with Joshua Palmeri was made possible by Denver Arts and Venues PS You Are Here program and City Park Friends and Neighbors. Color Field was on view from May 2020 to May 2021.
Step 7: Black Holes was a black sand public installation in the Icelandic town of Eyrarbakki that used sand from the local beaches combined with laborious ritual to explore identity, addiction, and release. This project was created at the Saga Residency in February of 2020.
The Magazine Project is a community-based creative publication that explores feminine identity and gender through the lens of mass communication and abstraction. By collecting collages from the community at participatory group exhibits and immersive installations, Sarah Darlene published Reassembled, a collection of the artist's and communities' magazine collages cut up and reassembled back in magazine format. A portion of sales benefits Family Tree’s confidential residential facility for survivors of domestic violence and those with children. This project was made possible by the Denver Theatre District and Understudy Denver.