Sara's Story
Sara is a weaver, painter, loves natural materials, and chooses community participation and collaborative methods whenever possible. She uses pigments passed down through her matrilineal line, and plant fibres she’s tended on land she nourishes and learns from.
She is thrilled by the ways the more-than-human world shows up to collaborate, both materially and spiritually, and much of her current work rests in ceremony and reverence to spirit and wild beings. She has collaborated with water, cedar, owl, hummingbird, red elder, devil’s club and others. Sara is a humble student of these mysteries in this place she calls home – səl̓ilw̓ət (North Burnaby), and is uncovering her ancestral wisdom lines from Alba/Scotland.
The City of Burnaby awarded Sara an Environmental Star for her work protecting Anna’s Hummingbird Nests from the TransMountain Pipeline (with Community Nest Finding Network).
Select Projects: Water Ceremony support/various, Crow Roost Twilight Bike Ride, Moon Circle, B:C:Clettes Bicycle Performance Collective, Use What You Got, Beehive Collective House, Bird Language/Forest School/Foraging Facilitator, etc.
I am currently weaving a “Water Blanket” for Ye-Ye (Grandmother) as part of Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey - a multi-year creative movement led by visionary Nlaka’pamux/Secwepemc artist Nadine Spence.
My weaving is tracing a story-line through ancestral memory, place, water protection, and waterways of the Lower Mainland. I am honoured that my blanket will be offered as a gift, part of a traditional give-away as per protocol to mark a major historical event.
I am weaving on a Salish-style floor loom I built from alder trees I (honourably) harvested. I hope to meet others who love water and perhaps have water-honouring practices or stories to share. Also, my mother was a weaver. I will hold a space for you in our circle.
