Artist statement:
@raucauslungs (Sabrina Blanchard) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist living on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen speaking people on Vancouver Island. Sabrina is a mixed heritage Northern Tutchone person of the Selkirk First Nation from the Yukon. Much of her solitary childhood was spent in communion with the surrounding wilderness living in the remote village Mayo. This foundation informs every aspect of her work as an artist. Her work attempts to evoke reverence for the natural world and rumination through its attempts to highlight the terrible and ephemeral beauty of entropy and decay. Sabrina holds a studio at the Ministry of Casual Living and is most often working with graphite and oil mediums. She has recently been experimenting with large installations, kinetic art and multimedia paper creations. Sabrina is grateful for the opportunity to represent the terrifying concept of oceanic microplastics in such a fun and experimental method! The process has been a cathartic and relevant in an atmosphere where climate change weighs heavy on the collective unconscious.