bio

I am a light-and lens-based artist native to north Florida. My work lives in the cracks, occupying the space between presence and absence. I look for resilience in broken places. Sudden loss and immense love have shaped my interest in the physical and psychological conditions of vulnerability, fragility, and exposure. Through experimentation across photographic techniques and mediums, I study where my authority ends and chance begins. I am drawn to processes that resist full control, where the photographic surface becomes a site of negotiation between expectation and outcome. As I evolve, intuition and sustained attention continue to guide me. I have learned to value unpredictability as a force rather than a flaw. 

Conceptually, my work considers the world and the people around me. I study how love and loss transform the surface in the details. Memory functions as something continually reconfiguring, much like the materials I work with. By engaging historical photographic processes in a contemporary context I challenge ideas of permanence, authorship, and the reliability of images in a digital culture. My current work unfolds across material investigations of the land and waterways around me, alongside a parallel inquiry into personal experiences of motherhood, love, and loss. Through experimentation and process-driven learning I’m exploring the ways these experiences reconfigure over time. 

As I evolve, I aim to expand these material investigations into sculptural and installation forms, allowing photographic and print-based elements to occupy space and invite physical engagement. Across mediums, my work remains rooted in material-driven explorations, where transformation is both represented and enacted.

contact:

sarahdicksphoto@gmail.com | 386-697-5693