Sarai Black is a queer artist living in the Pacific Northwest.
I am a maker in all ways and creation is something that I experience as a spiritual relationship. I feel like a conduit for energies that want to manifest in our physical world and I make what flows through me. Often those energies feel in service to healing, transformation, embodiment, grief, connection, love, beauty, the earth. My work is a labor of touch, a regard for the old and sacred, and a connection to my ancestors. My work is a processing through of thoughts, care, emotions, pain, grief — a practice of surrender. I am inspired by and devoted to the earth. To be in relationship with plants, trees, flowers, rocks, and waters is a gift that I will forever feed and grow.
I live and work on the unceded territories of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Cowlitz, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Indigenous peoples. My ancestral background is Belgian, Italian, Scottish, Irish, and English and I recognize that I am occupying stolen land. I am committed to decolonizing, paying reparations, dismantling white supremacy, moving toward collective liberation, and learning in the places where I am lacking. A portion of my income is paid as rent to the Chinook Indian Nation and to paying reparations of all kinds.
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