Sarah Tyschenko
Sarah Tyschenko
Elegant Fusions
Elegant Fusions
Disruption is vital. We are used to seeing things in a certain way. We expect a degree of fidelity and cohesion. But design is inherently experimental, and designers continue to disrupt, or reimagine, what design is. (Let’s face it, the discipline is impossible to pin down. It’s this, it’s that, and so on.) I start with the unified and the expected, then break it apart, creating jarring images that aim to startle, mesmerize, and intrigue the viewer; arresting and sustaining their attention for a prolonged period of time. While unexpected and eclectic, I seek to create harmony from dissonant fragments, and to deepen the visual experience with the addition of poetic language that, in a way, makes sense of nonsense. Trained as a visual artist as well as a graphic designer, I prefer to work on an iPad with a pen; it’s more natural to use my drawing hand rather than fingers on a keyboard. In this way I endeavor to create mis-matched wholes from independent fragments; breathe new, startling life into the antiquated and familiar; to produce what I call elegant fusions.