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New marginalia post. Meet collage artist, supremely cool person, and illustrator for my new book, tentatively titled Theseus: @solosara.bsky.social

This was the first piece of hers that caught my attention. Her output is prolific and enviably consistent: fierce and forthright, honest to a fault, occasionally exasperated, but always with a wry humour, a wink and a nod at the audience.

I’d like to think my years working at if:book gave me a good gut feeling for finding potential collaborators, people with the spark and the embrace of the absurd that suggest they might be well disposed to join this strange world of weird books. You know, people I won’t scare off.

Sara first worked with cutups and collage after leaving school, she didn’t fully embrace the medium as an artist until later. "And this time I decided to post the work online. Before long, I had people approaching me asking how they could buy my pieces. It took me completely by surprise."

“‘These are the images that speak to me and speak for me. I think of it sometimes like journaling. I’m not necessarily making images about myself, but about the things that are on my mind, the things that are around me or speak to me. It’s very intuitive.”

“I make flowers grow and animals emerge from bodies because nature happens, whether you want it to or not. It will eventually reclaim its space. Like a flower growing through a crack in the pavement.”