“I want my pieces to echo human experience: joy, suffering, points of calm at which we all find refuge … To me, painting is a process of recollection and repression. Within the pictorial spaces are the interpretation of the Eastern art through Western means of abstraction and fragmentation…”

“Sara Sato is concerned with sacred spaces and boundaries, both internal and external. She is interested in objects washed ashore, which carry both spatial and temporal symbolism. And she investigates humans, nature, and the relationship between them. Sato paints the world as both real and imagined, her thoughtful choice of media–watercolor and sumi ink–also engaging the relationship of land elements to water. This is a literal exploration of the metaphorical blurring of boundaries, implying there may be no clear answer as to which is which.”