Thinking, creating, learning, loving: any value-experience we have occurs when the number or quality of the connections we make increases. I am an obsessive reader and maker, and have become fascinated with the study of intuition and the process that allows amalgamations of metaphoric information or imagery to become portals to irrational connections that might evoke an individual viewer's own perceptive poetry.  My narratives are often non-linear, with many connections, visual puns, and art or literary references folded into them.  The images recur in different combinations that alter their implications: forests, well-diggers, headless people and creatures, water, old keys, wrinkled faces, ships, birds, and lanterns are frequent tropes.  There are so many psycho-social, synaesthetic experiences with perceptual and emotive intricacies we do not yet have common words to describe. I think of my paintings and sculptures as pro tem words and letters.  Each piece is a word that can be moved around in or on a surface to write different stories.  The titles of my objects are also nomadic. They change depending on their context.  One of my favorite methods of working is to apply logic and theory to irrational landscapes to create Deleuzian objects.  Eau de Joy, for example, is an inverted container.  Its label reads, "Outside of this vessel, all the joy in the world is contained."  Its purpose is to designate a potential field of joy external to its own spatially specific literal vessel, reminding its Perceivers that joy is therefore possible in the zone they inhabit.  It is a reminder that we create our own lens and can take an active role as the curators of our own reality.  Art does not need to be only a studio practice.  A studio does not need to be any smaller than a universe or a life. *Sarah Zar is a northern-dwelling, non-migratory bird, possibly related to the magpie. It traditionally creates novels by painting. This species is noted for its colorful use of dream logic. Row, Raven, Row!