Photo by Sasha Kelley
Sydney Cain (she/them), aka sage stargate, is a visual artist born and raised in Fillmore San Francisco, CA. Their work reflects encounters with unseen realities.
Where and how does one find refuge? What are the means towards a free existence? Have we been conditioned to fear and disconnect from these traumatic events even as they continue to engage with us? Are these spaces deep confluences and waterways where light is not meant to reach?
Notwithstanding the discomfort these artistic congregations may engender, I invite you to question the traumas and the histories of violence that have prevented us from alternate ways of knowing and hindered our extra sensory perception and other modes of making meaning.
My hope is that this work helps you to reassess ways of seeing, expands communal remembrance, and activates psycho-spiritual and ancestral reclamation.