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Sarah Cacioppo
Hello. Thank you for visiting The Noyse and for checking out my interview. I'd like to take a moment to say that I am an artist from New Orleans, LA. My home is suffering a devastating blow right now. I am sure you all are aware of the devastation that has been caused by hurricane Katrina and now Rita, as well. I'd like to encourage you all to please offer your support to the people of the south in any way that you can. Please help! I left New Orleans in the summer of 2004 to continue to pursue an art career in Portland. My intentions were to reach my goals here so that I could return to the city that cradles my heart, and share my success with my family. I am fortunate that my work and I have survived this tragedy. I feel like I just evacuated early. But I will go home, and we will rebuild. I feel even more pressure now to make my dreams a reality, having survived and avoided what so many did not. Please do your part to help the wonderful people of the south! Thank you.
When did you really get into art?
I really got
into art in about 8th grade when I started taking art class in school.
How did you come to the realization that you should try your luck at art on a
more serious level?
By the time I
was to graduate high school, I knew there was nothing else I wanted to do with
my life. I didn't have much of a choice.
How did you discover the particular style that you have?
Lots of practice,
lots of straying away from what I was really good at, to come to it again and
see it in a new light.
How would you describe your style?
Its a
combination of classic meets comic book.
Who or what influences your art?
My dreams, my
memories, and my emotions combined with the ebb and flow of the moon. All of my
pent up desires. The musicians that infect my consciousness and keep my world
pulsating; their lyrical imagery becomes imprinted on my brain and my heart, and
then finds its way back out again.
How often do you create a new piece?
Quite often.
I always have multiple pieces being created at once.
What kind of success have you had with your art?
Before moving
to Portland, I sold journals with prints of my images on the cover to several
businesses in the French Quarter of New Orleans. I produced the pieces by hand,
embellished each print, signed and numbered every book. I sold about 300 before
coming to Portland. I had a few write-ups in papers in New Orleans. I also
sold clothing items, original paintings and prints there. Upon moving to
Portland I've found sellers for my work. In the form of clothing sold at the
Red Light Clothing Exchange on Hawthorne, people are buying my work from the PDX
Design section, so I am pretty happy about that. I've begun branching out into
designing art work for bands.
What would be the ultimate goal for you and your art?
My ultimate goal is for Kill Time Productions to be a full scale production
company; producing a clothing line, writing items and prints and things. I'd
like to do lots of custom designing for bands. I want it to be my full time
job, my full time life. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.
What do you see as an accomplishment in the way of art?
If someone
buys your work, that is an accomplishment because it has taken ownership with
that person.
What kind of message, if any, do you try to convey through your art?
That we are all
characters in the stories of our lives; that which eventually will come to an
end. But there is always the possibility of picking up the pen again.
Sum up your art in one word.
Haunted
Any additional comments?
I'd like to thank Josh Brown for wanting to feature me in The Noyse. Thank
you.
I'd also like to thank the people that inspire and motivate
me as an artist, and those that push me to try harder and try again and again.
Because it is not always easy, in facts its never really easy, to keep hope
burning in our hearts when darkness wants to fade in upon us. I am stronger for
the strength and endurance you all have shown me, and I continue on, to meet you
all on the other side one day.
And thank you to anyone that has taken the time to read this and view my work.
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