Sarah Zucker Sarah Zucker

Rhapsody in Hue

The bliss of all things moving in harmonious alignment. My favorite color has always been all of them all at once.

RHAPSODY IN HUE is a signature VideoFeeling crafted in my studio in 2021. It came together through a unique pairing of original video synthesis animation and video feedback technique with analog processing.

I have become increasingly aware of the nature of my VideoFeelings as a form of rhythmic sculpture that I create with light on videotape. They vibrate with tactility and possess a unique dimensionality despite being entirely incorporeal.

It’s no secret that I’m forever in love with rainbows. I have long said that my favorite color is all of them at once. Aside from their arrestingly beautiful aesthetic qualities they bear great mythological meaning. The rainbow signifies harmonious alignment and wholeness in both spiritual and scientific modes of thought. 

I’ve been musing lately on the vibrant palettes I explore in my work, and how they’re only accessible through the RGB colorspace originated in Cathode Ray Tube Televisions. The emergence of NFT technology has encouraged widespread embrace and support for screen-based artworks in their natively luminous format without the need to dull their shine to fit into the material world.

This piece is a celebration of the dance we do between the physical and spirit realms as we wield our novel command of electric light.

RHAPSODY IN HUE was minted at 9am this morning as the genesis token on my new VideoFeelings contract provided by Manifold.

I’ll no longer be minting to the SR shared contract, which caps my existing 1/1s there. The use of my own contracts will allow for my ongoing series to exist as self-contained collections on OpenSea, while being aggregated seamlessly with my longstanding SuperRare profile. This should yield an optimized secondary market experience for my collectors – I’m quite dedicated to elegance, after all.

This piece will be making a special IRL emergence this month – more info on that when it can be revealed.

RHAPSODY IN HUE is now available on reserve auction on SuperRare.

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Sarah Zucker Sarah Zucker

POLARIS

Forever creating my own North Star, so that I never lose my way.

POLARIS is a signature VideoFeeling crafted in my studio during a wildly transitional time in my life. I have been meditating on the concept of the North Star, and the role it’s played in guiding wayward sailors and redemption-seekers to safety.

The need for a guiding light became paramount as I’ve been reorienting myself to my new reality. The work I’ve done over the past three years editioning my artwork on the blockchain has reached psychedelic new levels of visibility and import in the eyes of others, and I’ve been asking myself where I wish to point myself moving forward.

These new tools have always been about self-sovereignty for me, and as such, it seems only fitting that this guiding light must be self-derived. And so, I have created my own North Star.

It’s a glorious synthesis of rhythmic linear counterpoints and vibrating gemtones – a look I’ve been revisiting and refining since I first began working with analog video in 2015. The desire to hone this particular visual strain in my work has become a pet obsession, as I forever chase the combination of color, rhythm and texture that will unlock the ultimate pleasure of synesthesia.

I imprint this work onto the blockchain today, on the brink of Passover season and its tale of the journey from constriction into open exploration. I intend it as a beacon of ecstatic feeling that can guide us all toward that which makes us feel free.

And, therefore, bards of old,

Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood,

Did in thy beams behold

A beauteous type of that unchanging good,

That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray

The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.

-William Cullen Bryant

POLARIS is now available on SuperRare.

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LUCIDITY NOW 👁🌀 This is an Invocation. For Life and for Dreams and for the Place Where They Meet. It’s intentionally complex. Folding back onto itself into Infinity. One must confront Obfuscation in the pursuit of Clarity. (🎶DiskettePark)
We can, and we must, end white supremacy! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 Two things to say here. If you’re black: Please let me know if you have anything I can signal boost for you in my stories, or if you just need a friendly ear. If you’re white: Some of you may already be out there fighting the fight, and good on you. But I imagine many of you are like me, and you’ve had feelings of shame, guilt and embarrassment emerge this week which have left you at times (or always) feeling paralyzed and unsure of what to do. This has led to your silence, which you may know to be complicity, but you feel afraid to speak out for fear of saying the wrong thing in the wrong spaces. Part of how the white supremacist system maintains itself is to not teach white people how to speak about race, so it’s only natural these conversations make you uncomfortable. Let me give you one action item, because while there is of COURSE so much to do, so many places to donate, so many petitions to sign, that’s all surface work that won’t stick without meaningful self-transformation. Read the book “White Fragility.” I’m in the middle of it myself, and it has been hugely helpful in giving me tools for how I can talk about race and work with my guilt to be a better ally. One thing that I think is really important is to let all your ugly feelings (shame, resentment, anger) come up and to get them out so you can sort through where they came from and why you feel that way. Please feel free to message me if you've been feeling paralyzed by conflicting thoughts. I won't judge you, and we can work through it together, as we should: do NOT dump this stuff on the black people in your life - it is not their responsibility to do emotional labor for us. Racism is a problem of whiteness, and again, if you read “White Fragility” as a place to start, you will understand why. Your shame may be resisting the notion, thinking it will make you feel worse, but I promise you, it will only help you to have better tools of understanding on this subject. Again, you can DM me if you have questions or need a friendly ear to help you become un-stuck on this issue: the only real allies are those who know how to take action!
Black Lives Matter! These are all great resources. Support > Performance. If you need more ideas for how to support, check the links in my stories! #blackouttuesday
Black Lives Matter! These are all great resources. Support > Performance. If you need more ideas for how to support, check the links in my stories! #blackouttuesday
You can now use my PortalVision filter on photos + videos from your camera roll! 🌀👀 Select the PortalVision filter in Instagram Stories, then tap the box in the lower left corner to select your media. If it doesn’t work automatically, you can select the filter by tapping the sparkly smiley button at the top of the screen after you load the media. Voila! Tag me in your creations, I love to see! 💖
The Holy Mountain 🏔🌀 This entity is also a place and a feeling. She came through on my video painter to say hello, a reminder we are always connected through the webs of our nervous systems even if we feel physically separated. I’m still deciding if I want to tokenize her as a single edition on @superrare.co, what do you think? (🎶silkersoft)
just hangin’ out in the 5th dimension with my floor kween + quarantine hair 💁‍♀️🐈🌈
Cubensis Impasto Diptych 🍄🎨 From my animated painting series, these pieces are now open for bidding on @superrare.co! (Link in Bio) I wanted to render these beings in a style that radiates their earthy, swampy nature. The animated paintings I creat
Cubensis Impasto Diptych 🍄🎨 From my animated painting series, these pieces are now open for bidding on @superrare.co! (Link in Bio) I wanted to render these beings in a style that radiates their earthy, swampy nature. The animated paintings I create are a labor of love, and I know they’re a far cry aesthetically from the VHS work I do. I like to think they share a certain ethos, though: in both cases, I’m taking up outmoded forms and combining them with new tech, creating “impossible” outcomes that reflect this weird in-between time we live in. We’ve spent our whole lives swimming around in alllll the forms of the past, searching for the next paradigm shift. A very mushroomy, chthonic concept: regenerating out of decay! I always feel a bit funny sharing the animated paintings, bc I know social media prefers you to pick a lane and stick to it, artistically speaking. But my visions are multifarious, they do not wish to be contained to one aesthetic. Can you relate? Is it crazy to defy your own “brand” so to speak? Depends on who you ask, I suppose. But I hope you enjoy this little break from the norm. Now is the time, babies! 👶🍄
My dreamy wife @bronwynlundberg drew this snazzy mandala portrait of me and my cool friend, my hair! She is WILDLY talented, and I’m so lucky to have someone who sees + celebrates my shapeshifting peacock ways. I started growing my hair out at
My dreamy wife @bronwynlundberg drew this snazzy mandala portrait of me and my cool friend, my hair! She is WILDLY talented, and I’m so lucky to have someone who sees + celebrates my shapeshifting peacock ways. I started growing my hair out at the beginning of 2019, having not worn it long since 2011. I was having dreams about my hair being loooooong again, and needed to see it through. Couldn’t have imagined a global quarantine would play a part in that vision, but now she sure is long, flowing, and feeling herself (literally, in the illustration! 💁‍♀️)
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, @yarnia1! We inadvertently did the same photo shoot 25 years apart. A bit of turquoise would satisfy us. I always thought this photo of her was from the Glamour Shots at the mall, but it was a Tina Slusser-Ley prod
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, @yarnia1! We inadvertently did the same photo shoot 25 years apart. A bit of turquoise would satisfy us. I always thought this photo of her was from the Glamour Shots at the mall, but it was a Tina Slusser-Ley production (if you know, you know).
PORTALVISION IS HERE! 👁🌀👁 my 3rd AR Face Filter is my most exciting one yet! You can use it in Insta stories if you follow me, or search for “thesarahshow” in the browse effects tab to find it. The inspiration to make a rainbow feedback eye filter came from the “Pineal Processor” GIF I made for my @print_screen_festival commission back in the Fall. I made that piece all analog, with green contact lenses and chroma keying in After Effects... exciting to now be able to get this effect in Augmented Reality! 😱