This week’s featured artworks are from the Iconography collection and the Signal & Noise series, and they’ve been placed at a well known financial institution in Chicago and a consulting firm in San Jose. The biblical Mary is certainly a majorly influential historical figure and religious icon, symbolic of the best, highest best human traitsContinue reading “Featured Artworks In Chicago & Silicon Valley”
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Exploring Symbolism With The Pop Art Iconography Collection
One of the latest collections explores Symbolism & Iconography in the Pop Art style, with a touch of glitch. These are collected original photographs, many of statues, that are layered and accented with graphic design features and other botanical photographs. It’s interesting to juxtapose the ancient and the modern, and technology with nature; to ponderContinue reading “Exploring Symbolism With The Pop Art Iconography Collection”
Multimedia Update: Rococo & Deco Geometric Photography + Forthcoming Album On OCTAVES
There is a lot of new work this month in May, with more to be posted! This particular group in the slideshow represents an ornate, rococo style of tree canopy photography. The layouts are decidedly baroque. And this is all original photography using various programs for editing. One topic that appears here is the amazingContinue reading “Multimedia Update: Rococo & Deco Geometric Photography + Forthcoming Album On OCTAVES”
§ Publications Book Release: AWASIS, A Science Fiction Novel
New Book Release: AWASIS by Sarah K. Ikerd • Studio Shangri-La Publications 2025 “Awasis” the science fiction novel that began as a series on Kindle Vella is now available on Amazon in large hardcover, as an ebook, also as a paperback printed on recycled paper. Awasis, named for the actual exoplanet and the Cree wordContinue reading “§ Publications Book Release: AWASIS, A Science Fiction Novel”
Studio Multimedia Update: Moments With Nature, The 2025 Grammys & More
The latest studio multimedia starts off with new (and old) additions to the Studio Shangri-La conceptual online photography catalogs – here of course, and also TurningArt and Saatchi Art. The above original with graphic design is “Khepri’s Sunflower,” named for the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph of the beetle, representing bringing something into being or to create.Continue reading “Studio Multimedia Update: Moments With Nature, The 2025 Grammys & More”
Studio Shangri-La Design + Lab: Bold Projects, Cures & Legacy Value
It comes to this — who will bravely build the cures for the greater value of benefit to society and legacy. On more than one occasion I’ve heard representatives from large institutions say they’re afraid of cures or solutions. From a business or competitive standpoint then, losing profit, running out of challenges or ideas toContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Design + Lab: Bold Projects, Cures & Legacy Value”
Studio Shangri-La Research Notes: Pathways From Plastic To Water
In constructing a process and device that uses a photochemistry to break down or rather transform plastics into useful byproducts such as water and hydrogen, it becomes necessary to delve into of course photonics, chemistry, physics, earth science and of course experimentation, application of the concepts in a learn-by-doing style. Climate action is of courseContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Research Notes: Pathways From Plastic To Water”
Studio Shangri-La Lab Notes: The Trash Can Of The Future / Photocatalysis Of Plastics
It is wonderful to get started on the prototype design for my photocatalysis / photodegradation process for using light to break down plastics, to incorporate into a “the trash can of the future,” a novel approach that removes and prevents trash from circulating in the environment. This idea I originally submitted to the MIT SolveContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Lab Notes: The Trash Can Of The Future / Photocatalysis Of Plastics”
Featured Artwork: “Gnosis” A 48 Print Charcoal Series
GNOSIS I on Amazon GNOSIS II — Paradise Found ”Gnosis” is a large 18”x24” charcoal series from 2018. It’s a channeled work, that occured in and around meditation- the first time in life I engaged in it *at length* and in earnest. The production of Gnosis I was quite feverish, whereas the next volume(s) muchContinue reading “Featured Artwork: “Gnosis” A 48 Print Charcoal Series”
Studio Shangri-La Art & Music Update
FIrst up in the art department, here are a few new nature portraits, thanks to the tropical South Beach Miami flora. They are all three silhouettes for a dramatic modern effect, and available on TurningArt and Saatchi Art in multiple formats. Next is a throwback to 2018, a series of fifty original 18”x24” charcoal drawings calledContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Art & Music Update”
Featured Artwork: “Fabricate::Recreate” 7’x3’ Mixed Media
”Fabricate::Recreate” is a large mixed media on deep canvas that incorporates recycled fabrics and is covered in layers with acrylics, mica and water based spray paint. It took me a few months to complete. The theme is the ongoing process of personal and cosmic transformation or fabrication of “prima materia,” the primordial starting material. ItContinue reading “Featured Artwork: “Fabricate::Recreate” 7’x3’ Mixed Media”
New Mixed Media + New Music: “Spirit” Glass + LEDs & “A Human’s World”
Large mixed media on heavy upcycled glass with paint, multicolor multimodal LEDs that are also sound sensitive. See gallery below for prayer text. Inspired by the unity of spirituality & science. See previous posts on this main page for further detail and Art Shops page for purchase.
Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media Painting
DRIP Another original mixed media 5’X3’ made of gesso’s, acrylics and water based spray paint, as well as acrylic paint pots. Inspired by NBA/WNBA runways, international fashion, creativity & imagination, self expression, the art of life, cycles of rebirth within life. fabricate::recreate This is 6 ft x 3 ft mixed media on canvas, with recycledContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media Painting”
Studio Project Update: Large Scale Digital + Upcycled Glass
The very latest Studio Shangri-La project to go live is a digital animation of some of the hi tech botanicals / visions of biosynergy, contributing to “The Conversation” by HHH Studio at Assembly Row, Somerville, MA on the Puma building. Humans are nature & even plant made (see:evolution), plus plants sustain us daily and provideContinue reading “Studio Project Update: Large Scale Digital + Upcycled Glass”
Drip: Studio Shangri-La Featured Mixed Media
“Drip” is the latest 5 ft x 3 ft mixed media by Studio Shangri-La and is now on display at Bogosplit, Copley Place in Boston’s Back Bay. This painting is inspired by basketball and international fashion, and is about the facets of self expression, the art of life and cycles rebirth within life, and theContinue reading “Drip: Studio Shangri-La Featured Mixed Media”
Studio Shangri-La Art Of The Day: Flower Fusion Reactor Core
The latest in a brightly colored series is “Flower Fusion Reactor Core” inspired by the power & energy of nature, as well as the new frontiers in technology, often best informed and influenced by earth sciences. Really, it all seems like earth or cosmic sciences split into subcategories! Anyway, this exuberant piece is made ofContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Art Of The Day: Flower Fusion Reactor Core”
Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Features: Color Block + New Mixed Media
The latest experimentation is with color block or color field style, inspired by the prominent painter Rothko. expander, named for the op art sort of shape here, concept of the broad color spectrum and dimensional universe, and also the chakras, the energetics centers, or loci of the body. The affect was achieved with an openContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Features: Color Block + New Mixed Media”
Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media @ Bogosplit, Copley Place
It’s great to be able to partner with Bogosplit at both Assembly Row and now Copley Place for this mixed media feature. On display and for sale are “fabricate::recreate” and “Alchemy Sun.” fabricate::recreate is a tribute to the unending process and potential of creation, from the cosmic – as this has a stellar/lunar appearance –Continue reading “Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media @ Bogosplit, Copley Place”
Studio Shangri-La Podcast: Space + Technology — Advanced Propulsion For Interstellar Travel
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Studio Shangri-La Podcast: Science + Philosophy — Trust The Body, Respect The Quanta
Studio Shangri-La on Boston’s Best Bogosplit.com
New partnership alert! Studio Shangri-La by Sarah Ikerd is now on Bogosplit.com, named one of Boston’s Best Retailers in 2022. Here’s the link: https://www.bogosplit.com/store/studio-shangri-la/ So far there are 24×36” and 18×24” banners, 11×14” framed prints and a large painting.