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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

It's my birthday today that means the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots! This is a drawing commemorating Marsha P. Johnson and all other Black trans women and queer individuals who have fought for gay and trans rights around the world. I would not be able to be who I am today without them 1/3

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Ravine, 2025, pen, marker, acrylic ink, alder ink from ravine on paper, 8 x 11.5 in.

A drawing of a swampy ravine. Black running shoes stomp across a boardwalk and through skunk cabbage. Alder trees stretch into a darkened sky. Two people sit amidst overlaying grasses, ferns and salmonberry. Three bears traverse over the drawing, separated from the scene by a white otherwordly outline. The sky is made of strange clouds and ink-blot sepia leaves. Strange buglike plantlike shapes line the spilling border.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Rat Nest, 2025, found fabric, thread, buttons, and garbage sourced from woods, 30 x 30 inch

Fabric-stuffed rats with button eyes skitter around scavenged, cleaned, then stitched garbage. The garbage ranges from bottle caps to plastic toys, clothes tags to food wrappers, masks to duct tape to a street sign. The rats are sewn onto floral patchwork fabric that has been stretched over a canvas frame.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Dwelling Grounds, 2025, oil paint on sewn scrap fabric, 36 x 60 inch

A painting of a public park in the liminal night. Figurative shadows are hidden amongst trees, benches and local flora. Raccoons climb on a children's play structure. Streetlight casts pools of light over chainlink fence and a train glides in and out of shadowed coniferous trees. It is painted on pieces of patchwork fabric sewn together into a canvas surface.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Storm, 2025, oil on canvas, 24x18 in.

A painting of a small red house sitting in red grass in a roiling storm. The storm is formed of swirling clouds, thickly painted lightning, ghosts, detatched wings and giant flies.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The Swans, 2025, oil and textile on canvas, 18x24 in.

A painting of four swans. A trumpeter swan, a mute swan, a tundra swan and a whooper swan spread their wings amidst gritty textures. A floral patch floats above them.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Where is the Body?, 2024, acrylic, linocut and embroidery on patchworked scrap fabric, 25x35 in.

Patchwork fabric stretched and painted with figurative icons, flora and fauna. These include an embroidered Kermit the Frog and Garfield, linocut print cicadas, trans starbabies, and a crow stretching out over mountains. Clownfish, broad-barred goby, damselfish, and a black sea bass mer-medusa swim up one side of the painting while a torn ship carrying a peacock and an oak tree moves in from the other side. Each piece of patchworked fabric creates a different texture over the painted work.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Stonewall Inn 1969, 2024, pencil crayon, marker and gel pen on paper, 30x22in.

Marsha P. Johnson climbs a streetlamp pole to drop a brick on top of a cop car. The brick shows a path struck in rainbow that explodes outwards to show the oncoming impact on the car. Stonewall Inn burns in the background. A luminescent shawl drapers her shoulders and bra over a short pink dress. She is like a saint.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Room, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 16x20 in.

A painting of a figure lying on a bed.A frog, horseshoe crab, and other little spirits float around them on the bed. A desk and drawing table sit on the other side of the room covered in paint tubes. Plants sit in the windows and hang from the ceiling. Grocery bags have been left on the floor. A desk chair is draped with a blanket. A painting of a two headed deer is hung over the bed. Posters of little creatures, ghosts and trinkets adorn the wall.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Gathering Place, 2024, scrap fabrics: denims, cottons, fleece, lace, veneer, thread, 18x24 in.

An embroidered piece depicting four people preparing for a night out in a bathroom. Thread knots loosely where the skin of the body would be while their clothes are made of denim, floral print and glossy rayon dress. The bathroom itself uses fleece, lace countertops, velvety walls, silky floor and cosmetic bottles, and rayon porcelain all with an elegant polyester floral backdrop while a hand-embroidered plant climbs chaotically up the wall.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Starchild's Omen, 2024, oil on canvas, 18x24 in.

A painting of a person, half blotted out by stars. They climb the skin in fleshy reds. They burst and fall and glow. One sits in front of the person's face, separating it from the three-headed hare that rises up from the bottom left corner of the painting.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Bathroom Series, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 18x24 in.

Two people get ready for a night out in front of the sink of a green bathroom. One figure wearing a floral vest points a brush at their eye. The other figure wears an over-the-shoulder shirt and fixes their hair. A mini monstera plant climbs up the wall. The shower curtain crinkles behind them. A closed window reveals darkness. Wine glasses, a makeup pallet, potted plants and nail polish bottles cover the counter.

A painting of the same bathroom, but pink. Another figure has joined the other two. They have short spiky hair, a cropped tank top, and jeans on as they fix the makeup of the vested individual. The plant continues to grow. The shower curtain softens. Everything on the counter has moved around ever so slightly. The window still stares into darkness. This painting has a bright and celebratory energy.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Coyotes at Night, 2024, oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in.

A painting of a coyote with a squirrel in its mouth standing amongst city road signs, fences, streetlights, telephone wires, a small children's playground, a bus stop, cars and distant trees. A second coyote lies behind the wooden fence of a garage. An electric transformer tower, streetlights and signs rise scraped and chipped into a rusted dusky orange sky.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Ogden's Curse, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 36x26 in.

A painting of an underwater scene. Three bodies float in a bull kelp forest, hair blending in with dragging kelp and skin tinged an undead scaly green. Above the water sits the breakwater lighthouse of Ogden Point, mountains layered against the ocean's horizon line.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Throckmorton, 2024, oil on canvas, 18x18 in.

A painting of a skeleton shredding, and by shredding I mean skateboarding, down the street. The skeleton has its knees bent and arms spread outward as it flies through the air on its skateboard. Oil spill clouds float across a purple sky. Streetlights bend unnaturally with blobs of heavy light. Houses rise off the edge of the sidewalk. Status mission: sick.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm Tearing Me Apart, 2024, leather, belt buckle, plaid cotton, lace, knit, thread, acrylic on canvas, 18x24 in.

A painting with fabric sewn into it. Swathes of all black fabric, leather, plaid, belt hooks and knit, reach around the sides of the canvas, hugging it, holding it, stitched inseparably from it. The canvas itself is washed out like skin and fog over doodles of ghosts, sunshine, squiggles and reaching hands. In places, the canvas raises and becomes rough and bloody with red thread and paint before a hole stitched with lace emerges.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sidewalk Scrape, 2024, acrylic, paper, lace and plastic lobster on canvas, 18x12in.

A painting of a crouching child with an injured knee. Emerging from the injury is red lace and a plastic lobster. They wear a striped shirt, blue shorts and purple accented running shoes. Their hands are positioned on their knees. The child's face is hidden. In the bottom left corner a sheet containing science notes on blood and the heart is painted over.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Transangelic Exodus, 2023, pencil crayon, oil pastel, graphite, gel pen, metallic acrylic ink, corduroy and wax on paper, 24x18 in.

A drawing of a trans angel. The angel's wings melt with wax. It holds its hand in the air in Da Vinci's biblical hand. It sits cross legged. Its chest has both boobs and topsurgery scars with two pairs of nipples. The body is coloured with rainbow swirls and spirals. It is covered in body hair. It is surrounded by textured gold. It is holy.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Venus's Venemous Coat, 2023, acrylic on denim coat, 30x30in. coat size: M

A denim coat painted with a skeleton of ribs, spine and hips, carnivorous plants and poisonous flowers. The skeleton is covered in fungi while growing up from the bottom of the coat are venus fly traps, pitcher plants, sundew, foxglove, stinging nettle and castor bean.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Forest Fire Season, 2023, 20x28 in., oil on canvas.

A fiery painting. An old woman with an umbrella plays a guitar behind a younger man, also playing a guitar. They sit behind a bridge that disappears into blackened forest branches. Waves of fire lick at the bottom of the painting while above cathedral windows stand silhouetted against a burning forest. Two sea stars float in the windows above the two figures.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Madonna and Child, 2023, 22x14.5 in., chalk pastel, oil pastel, pen and charcoal on paper.

A black and white drawing of Madonna and Child. Madonna, cloaked in fabric with a face of anemones, tenderly holds her baby son, their skin bursting with goose barnacles. The baby's head is an October sunflower, and he holds dandelions in his arms. Acorn barnacles climb up the bottom of the page. Behind Madonna's halo there is a festering of creatures including beetles, jellyfish, sea stars, a butterfly, a dragonfly, crab and a deer.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Denouement, 2023, 24x30in. chalk pastel, charcoal, pen, pencil crayon on paper.

An apocalyptic landscape. Above: deer, jellyfish, sea stars, deragonflies, fish and bugs swarm from the top right of the drawing against a chalky gradient sky. A streetlight rises from the lefthand side, bursting with light. Electric towers, telephone wires and a church sit toppled amongst anemones, dandelions, a sunflower, acorn barnacles and gooseneck barnacles.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Deer Pit, 2022, 26x36 in., oil on canvas.

A painting of a pit full of deer. The deer look a little crazed and are all painted differently in reds and purples with highlights of extraterrestrial green. The pit is situated in the midst of a grassy landscape in front of a house with windows lit florescent green. The sky is timeless in reds rising to blues behind shadowy trees.

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marshbabe aka Kate T @marshbabe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My grad comic anthology has launched on itch.io! Digital copies available here, and physical copies to come! marshbabe.itch.io/lovely-dark-...

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Lovely, Dark and Deep by marshbabe

A comic anthology about what happens beyond the edge of the unknown.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Topography, 2022, 40x40in., pencil crayon on paper.

A figure sits, legs crossed, hands grabbing at its own face. Waves, patterns, lines, swirls, fill in shadows and define feature and form. The face is smushed upwards on one side and dragged downwards on the other, one eye mashed close, the other open and tired. The hair is curly, mullet-length. The torso slouches slightly fowards, rolling in on itself. The figure is split into 7 pieces of paper that come together to form a whole.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Anatomy of a House, 2022, 22x26in., one ballpoint pen on paper.

An intensely detailed drawing of the haunting of a house. A head filled with holes full of eyes, its own eyes blank, opens on the righthand side of the page. Hands claw, hands drop ghosts from their sticky fingers. Doors and staircases climb out of the half-open head. Trees grow out of its ears and above those trees grows mushrooms and above those mushrooms bottles are stacked. A rocking chair sits on the lefthand side of the page surrounded by toys, lamps, dishes upon dishes, a rug, a blanket, a teddy bear, a guitar, a boombox and then fences and houses stack on top of each other. A hand reaches diagonally upwards towards the right, grasping a house in its fingers. The houses continue to climb. A ribcage rises out of the mass, filled with flowers, grabbed, grown, mushrooms and trees. Ghosts emerge. What hauntings can you feel?

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Louise V, 2022, 12x18 in. oil on canvs. Fun fact this painting was my first official foray into oil paints!

A painting of a skull jar in florescent greens against black. Purple shadows swirl in glass. Next to the skull jar sits a mug jar on one side and a large dark bottle on the other.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Louise: A Series, 2022, 12x18 in., acrylic on canvas panel.

A painting of a skull shaped jar. The jar is lit up in bright and soft yellow, green, purple and turquoise against a black background. It sits peacefully with calm stimulating colours. The skull casts a blue shadow on the sill it sits on.

A skull jar painted from above. Its cheeks are dark and its face thoughtful. It is painted in messy blues, purples and whites.

A painting of a skull jar. The skull is a melting red, glowing out of shadow with highlights of yellow.

A painting of a skull jar being held by a hand. The hand twists its grasp between eye socket and base. Its nails are painted black. The skull is painted grotesquely in shivering blues and disturbing greens. It looks muted and malleable.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Picnic, 2022, 38x48 in., acrylic on canvas.

A painting of a picnic for bugs. Moths, spiders, beetles and a crow climb amongst acorn and butternut squash, pumpkins, apple slices, plums and cranberries. A blanket is laid out amongst leaves with the fruit on it and trees twist in the background against a purple sky.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In Transit, 2022, 36x60in., charcoal and pen on paper.

A drawing of people on the bus. They sit serenely, holding bags, checking their phones, sitting with loved ones, sitting with strangers, looking out windows. Crowds of people, bus stops and shop windows pass behind in the windows. Removed from the space of the bus are quickly drawn figures also riding on the bus cuddling or holding flowers or taking calls or simply passing time.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The Process of Decomposition, 2020, 30x22 in., oil pastel, watercolour, pen, chalk pastel on paper.

A four-paneled illustration of an individual rendered in black and white charcoal is slowly overtaken by plants and trees rendered in colour. The first: through a forest of ferns and tall trees, an individual with long hair and a skirt walks slouched through the woods, hand over their chest. Second: their ribcage is shown exposed and full of branches, roots, flowers, mushrooms. Third: they cough into their arm. They are wrapped in branches and framed by trees. Fourth: They are shown first crouching, then slowly raising their head, a tree explodes in leafing growth from their mouth.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

2020, Little Red and The Wolf, 22x30 in., pen, marker, ink, chalk pastel

A drawing of a dragon-snake-like wolf moving through a city and talking to a small red hooded figure with yellow flowers around her. City buildings rise up around them in an impossible maze of infrastructure. Street signs and traffic lights are haphazardly stacked behind buildings. One of particular note reads "YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO LITTLE GIRLS WHO STRAY OFF THE PATH"

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

2020, Bedroom Still Life, 22x30 in., ink, marker, pen, pencil crayon, oil pastel

A drawing of a collection of bedroom objects including headphones, cassette tapes, a candy tin, a paint jar, a feather in a jar, a jar full of rocks, a bottle with dead flowers in it, a succulent plant, a hanging stopwatch, a hanging necklace, a shell, a photo frame, a wooden spaceship, a notebook, a lamp, glasses and background fabrics.

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Sar Nordstrom @sardinesravine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hello bluesky! Until I get my website setup let's call this a portfolio hey? updates will come later :] - if you made it all the way to the bottom of my page, much love to you <3

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