ABOUT THE ARTIST

S. Birch Black (they/them), or S.B.Black Arts, is a Boston-based visual artist. S has been obsessed with art since they were first able to hold a pen, delighting in creating fantasy worlds for themself. Flash forward to today, S is a scientist & engineer who channels some of this technical inspiration into their visual creations. S took on a particular fondness for the medium of collage during an assignment in one specific studio art class, and over time found a way to merge it with acrylic painting, and pen/ink (other mediums they love) in a way that feels like fluid self-expression to them. S's most recent work uses a combination of all of these media to create dark, fantastical, and often cosmologically-inspired scenes that are, at the very core, acts of inner world discovering. All of S's featured works are traditional art pieces, photographed and digitally uploaded to this gallery. Part of the pleasure of creating these works to S is the tactile experience, and physical connection to their art, which they hope to write more on soon.  AI is not invited to their wheelhouse, and instead, from a squishy, organic brain, they strive to create only the similitude of dreaming of electric sheep.

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[Artist portrait created by overlapping self portrait and artwork]