All images © Sara Golish, shared with permission
In her ethereal portraits, Toronto-based artist () renders lavishly adorned goddesses and gods that exude a sense of power and wisdom. The charcoal, conté, and ink drawings are part of two ongoing collections, titled and , that imagine a series of fictional deities. Each figure belongs to one of the celestial bodies, a correlation that the artist visualizes through the paper’s color, with a warmer beige for the sun and a cool gray for the moon. “I chose to keep them monochromatic so they could be imagined in any skin tone to each individual viewer’s liking—an ease to envision themselves,” the artist says.
In recent months, Golish has been working on commissions and new bodies of work across mediums, which you can follow on . To add one of the mythical portraits to your collection, see what’s available in .
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