Sarah Catania

Sarah Catania draws on her own personal experiences to create works that engage with trauma, loss, grief, and memory.  Exploring the impact of her own psychological struggles using recycled and found materials, she investigates the consequences of negative experiences in her life.  Catania uses artwork as a way to process life and give expression to inner monologue.

#10 | untitled, 2019, reduction lino print, 28 x 38 cm, NFS.

This print was the result of not marking a registration corner on my lino piece after carving it out for the second layer for a work.  Naturally I just decided to wing it and see if I could guess which corner was the right one to line it up with….I guessed wrong….  But at least I was able to figure out which one was the right corner after printing it – I marked a little star on the lino to remember.  I decided to print the next two layers to test the shades.  The paper also got pretty beat up – it’s been through the wars.

I kept this print because – well I don’t like wasting paper, I like to reuse it whenever I can - I'm going to make some of my own paper out of the scraps I have.