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Truth!

08/14/2025

WHAT YOU LEFT TO BURN
A Sculpture Series by Sarah Barnes

What You Left to Burn was created from fire-fallen timber: pieces of a once-thriving ecosystem that had been through devastation, that literally survived fire, and somehow serendipitously, found their way to me. Each sculpture was forged in the fire I have felt myself living through: not a literal blaze, but one made of grief, loss, betrayal, and a kind of mourning I never imagined I would face.

Like most of us, I have lived through trauma. I have known deep sorrow and long seasons of struggle. These hardships have gifted me strength and wisdom I carry to this day. Yet recently, my deepest wound has come from watching the moral foundation I thought I shared with people I’ve loved my entire life seemingly crumble beneath me.

The title of this series comes from listening to Ben Howard’s song The Burren on repeat for months during the creation of these pieces. One verse wove itself into the very fiber of my being:

My bloodline
 Now can’t you see I’m letting go?
 I’ll take with me WHAT YOU LEFT TO BURN.

…continued in comments.👇🏼

08/09/2025

My goodness, what a night!! ✨ I feel like I’m walking on cloud nine!!

I have to first say thank you to Nelli, and Grace, at the Idaho Art Gallery for inviting me into this incredible group of artists, for believing in me, and for giving me this opportunity. 🙏🏼

I’m also so incredibly grateful to everyone who showed up for me tonight! To the new friends I met and for the inspiring conversations I had the opportunity to have. I can’t wait to dive deeper into this community and keep those conversations going.

I’d also be remiss not to thank my husband for being by my side tonight and for being such a steady support in life and on this journey. I love you so much, babe!

‘What You Left to Burn’ is my very first sculpture series, and it holds SO much meaning for me. It is my first body of work that I’ve created purely for me… as a dive into my own soul and into my own story. It will forever hold a sacred place in my heart.

To know that other artists were curious about these pieces, about my process in creating them and to know they (you) wanted to hear more of the story behind them… and to feel the connection they had with others… truly fills my soul! I simply do not have the words. ☺️

I’m so excited to share more of the story with all of you, to keep connecting with this amazing community, and to keep following this path my heart is leading me down. My heart is so full tonight!! It’s such a wonderful feeling to be seen, to have my art out there in the world, and to have it be appreciated. I, sincerely, could not be more grateful! 🙌🏻

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Good night for now, my friends. 🤍 More to come. 💖

08/06/2025

I’m so excited to have my first ever sculpture series: What You Left to Burn, on display at the Idaho Art Gallery.

Join me and some other incredibly talented, local artists this coming Friday in downtown Meridian.

More pictures and the story behind each piece in the series to come. Cannot wait to show you all what I’ve been up to!

06/12/2025

05/20/2025

REPUBLICANS:

✅ Tax increases on the poor.
✅ Tax breaks for the ultra wealthy.

Makes perfect sense. 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️

05/13/2025

Let’s talk about MORAL obligation.

02/12/2025

Handmade Thank You cards!