Connie Sabo

Time passes….what do we value? …. how can we transform?…what gives us life?…  These thoughts go through my mind as I continue to develop my practice, which explores concepts relating to cycles, notions of being, and relationships that intertwine with the past present and future. I transform the mundane, and play with scale to consider a different perspective and challenge perceptions.  My material is simple and humble. Reclaimed newspaper, the ubiquitous daily news, a tactile sliver of our recent history. It holds a selection of information deemed important enough to impress into the irecord and also reveals what is absent. I deconstruct, reconstruct, and transform hundreds of sheets of newspaper, torn into thousands of long thin strips.  Each strip is hand twisted and tightly spun to create skeins of yarn, ready to take on a new existence and significance. The installation invites the viewer to explore the space, moving in and out and through it. 

As I reflect on this work it reveals such relevance to our current times. It is a self portrait of sorts but even more so it's a portrait of our society, our world, and how we are all connected. Along with the many challenges we face in this ongoing year of COVID, comes hope as we take time to reflect, respond, reset and know that we have the capacity to change our path in a multitude of ways. the journey begins where it ends speaks to this continual cyclic manoeuvre that is pulse like and organic as it evolves and transforms. 

Attached are a few photos and a link to a video of the installation.

Bio:

I am a Vancouver based artist with a studio practice in mixed media, sculpture and installation. My work explores life cycles and sustainability as well as identity and personal narratives. My process is a regimen: meditative and obsessive. I embrace and transform the mundane. I am a graduate of UBC (1982) and Emily Carr (2003), past board member of the Emily Carr Alumni Association (2007-2016) and the Eastside Culture Crawl Society (2013-2019) and founding member of AgentC Projects, a Vancouver based curatorial collective. I exhibit locally and in the United States.