Sarah Paulsen
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  • Current Projects: On Whiteness
    • The Invention of Whiteness >
      • White by Law
      • Passenger
      • Consumer's Void
      • The Racial Matrix
      • Jello
    • On Whiteness >
      • hidden white norms
      • Family Culture, Traditions, and Rituals
  • Visual Art
    • Animation Drawings, Props, and Ephemera
    • Painting >
      • Untitled Women
      • Parades >
        • History of Parades
      • Female Flaneur >
        • Female Flaneur Exploration in St. Louis
        • Thrift Store Identities
        • Searching for Art in South America
        • The Grand Tour
      • Portraits of Columbia
      • Group Portraits
    • CamRah >
      • Ant Circus and Built
      • Echo
      • Off the Wall in Utter Pandemonium as We Tape on It.
      • Temple of the Dancing Bear
      • Murals and Set Design
    • Collage/Assemblage >
      • Targets
      • Wanderlust
    • Community Projects >
      • Community Workshops & Artist Residencies
      • Curating
      • Murals
      • People's Joy Parade
    • Drawing >
      • Recall Redraw Release
      • Things for Which I am Nostalgic
      • Sketches and Process Work
    • Installation >
      • & Animation
      • & Paintings
      • Female Flaneur Exploration
      • Found Fabric Screen
    • Costumes and Performances
  • Video and Animation
    • Ant Circus
    • Begin
    • Elegy to Connie >
      • Elegy to Connie artworks
    • High Wire
    • Heart is a Muscle
    • Midwest Hair
    • ¿Qué Séra, Séra?
    • W.O.W (Women On Wheels)
  • Teaching
    • Marian Middle School and College/Adult Classes
    • Animation Workshops and Classes
  • Sales
    • Freelance, barter, & commission work.

Artist Statement

     I make work about subcultures, outsiders, and the informal configurations of community.  Primarily I work with paint, but I have been animating my paintings and collages for the past eight years.  With these mediums, I enjoy telling the story of a person or place.  I don’t just work in my studio.  I like to consider myself a female explorer.  My animations are conceived through the observations and conversations I have with the community of people I encounter in St. Louis. Talking, walking, and driving, I discover my surroundings.  The journey could
also occur perusing a thrift store, old magazine, or yearbook.  The trinkets thatI find, and drawings and collages I make, all become a part my animations.  By animating using things handmade, I endeavor to create visuals that evoke a sense of enchantment and wonder.  Furthermore, by working in a process that embraces a low-tech economy of means, I hope to match the authentic spirit of everyday stories.  When I interview people in preparation for an animation, I seek a dialogue with that individual that reveals their complexity.  I try to connect
with what he/she is passionate about and see how that relates to their history.
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