By Jonathan Stamper 01/29/2018

A few days ago, I was casually surfing the internet for stuff, as we all do. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, just skipping from one page to another, from one social media to another. It was mundane to look into the world through the eyes of others, by now aren’t we all just doing the same. We are self involved to the extent of an obsession, we are now looking at the world through selfies and pictures that have no significant value. This was when, I saw a post some friend of mine had shared, at plain sight it was an abstract expression art. The picture wasn’t any defying work of art by itself, it wouldn’t have caught anyone’s notice if it were installed in a gallery. Eventually, I just surfed away and had for the moment thought I was never ever gonna see it.

Skip to a week later, I saw another picture of a totally different art piece on Instagram (I guess, not sure), it was weird but the picture suddenly brought a flash memory of another similar piece of art. At the instance, I couldn’t recollect the exact art work, but I knew it had a similar expression of feeling in it. I got to a bit of digging on the artist and the art work, to my surprise it wasn’t anyone well-known to the world of art. I further looked the artist up for any previous works, just when i found a piece that I had come across a week earlier. It was no co-incidence that both the pieces, that were very different on an overview had a same undertone to them. It had a dark strength to the strokes and bold use of colors with strikingly similar expressive zeal. I was intrigued to find more about this less known artist, it took me a while to dig and scramble through the internet. I finally found her, she was a relatively a new to the world of paints and canvas but was a totally different artist before all of it.

Sarah Marie Faas, the new-age expressionist and a challenge to the social structure by her own. Ms. Faas, a former adult-movie star, was well-known in the world of adult-industry, now retired for good and has totally dedicated her life to the canvas. Her paintings have a unique flavor of sensuality and dark tone of life, It wouldn’t be far-fetched to say that she derives her inspiration from her past and the present, the struggle to completely revive oneself and create an identity in the society is genuinely portrayed in her works of art. In a brief chat she mentioned “there was a story behind every stroke, while some of her abstract expressions were completed in a single session, others works of portraits and landscapes took years to perfect”. Works like the “Golden Gate at Sunset” are raw beauty of landscape art, while others like the “Fire” depict a deeper passion of the artist. To her the meaning in the colors and canvas are about passion and a sense of completion, as she writes in one of her blog-post “the creative process is, at times exhausting as I struggle to convey the contents of hidden and sheltered shadows within until they are revealed on the canvas”. Some of her abstracts have a had her quite literally immersed in them, the works like “Island Girl” are unique pieces of the physical relation of the artist with art. She explains the whole idea of her works and art by questioning the very thought, “is art the reflection of some vague reality, or is it the reverse that is in fact the reality ? The reflection in a mirror of an image from a mirror has no ending as it travels to infinity, yet it begins outside of the world that it is within. I have determined that the perception of reality is greatly altered by the position from which it is perceived.”

There is a new bud in the art, it’s just a matter of recognition to this novelty of art pieces. It isn’t a every day happening that, someone like this artist would try to turn their entire life around, the society seldom accepts the likes of her for their pasts. The passionate world of admires owe a moral obligation, to accept an artist for her art or to respect the triumph of her life.

find more of her works on: https://www.facebook.com/sarah.m.faas

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