"The Beauty of Imperfection" Sarah Elise Abramson

Although she speaks in breezy terms about excavating “the unusual among the ordinary,” or the “beauty of imperfection,” certain powerful, almost archetypal motifs and organizing principles recur Sarah Abramson's work. “Nature is my God,” she offers as a starting point. “It’s proof there’s something bigger than us.” This is not a religious statement per se, nor even necessarily a spiritual one. It’s more like an awareness of the fundamental, fractal, hidden order that binds matter and energy together in unseen, dream-logic schematics perceptible in things like leaves (she’s obsessed with palm fronds) or waves, or fabric caught in a breeze or the paths of butterflies. It’s what Jung called “the cosmos in the chaos.” Her work locates this cosmos not only in nature’s design, but also in experiences, in meaningful coincidences and recurrences of echoed forms in the world of objects and beings. And finally, as she increasingly moves from the receptive act of noticing to the generative act of creating expressions of this hidden order, her work becomes about the something-from-nothing alchemy the human psyche performs in interpreting the world and assigning it meaning — like a scavenger in an alleyway, or an artist in her studio. Or, according to Jung, like “the creative mind playing with the objects it loves.”  - Shana Nys Dambrot

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