Montage Artist Sarah Hurt | Expectation

“Expectation” is an intimate narrative based on my personal choices and experiences. This piece is about the expectation of motherhood for a woman in today’s society, the societal pressure women receive to become a mother and the sense of loss or “not measuring up” a woman might experience if unable to conform to this expectation.

Expectation is a small-scale mixed media collage, created using image transfer techniques, insect wings, pigments, atomized metal powders and paper ephemera.

Over the course of the last 15 years, my work has evolved from undulating, abstract bronze sculptures inspired by the reproductive organs and life cycle of plants and animals – inspiration drawn from my childhood growing up on the family farm. To intimate-sized, textural, multi-layered, organic, collages, inspired by my own life experiences. I have been able to translate many of the materials I use as a sculptor to a two-dimensional format and have found the combination of using traditional and non-traditional artist materials incredibly inspiring. I find that each of the specific characteristics of the materials I use lend themselves beautifully to the exploration of my concepts. Nature is my ultimate inspiration; the delicate and precious cycle of life, the undulating natural beauty of animal migrations, ocean waves and rolling hills, and the mystery our universe holds. In my eyes mother nature is the master artist and as I work, I aspire to glean the essence of natures design and rework it into my own artistic creations. I hope you enjoy.

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