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sara heinonen

writer + visual artist
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“Hamilton Is Priceless” (3’ x 3’, acrylic on canvas) — Drop by @meritbrewing for Friday’s Art Crawl and enjoy the colour blast in IRL. OR contact me and BUY it! The choice is yours. Showing until June 7 along with
With acrylic paint I imagined @jim.moske in his happy place in upstate New York. Summer is never complete without the song of “The Mockingbird.” This and other paintings I somehow managed to create over the winter are showing along with s
Hamilton pals! My paintings and photographs will be adding a splash of colour to the big concrete wall @meritbrewing on James St. north. The show runs from April 29 to June 7 with an opening party on Wednesday April 29 from 7 to 9 pm. Please come by
What!? My first exhibited painting (“Tiny Bungalow and Shrub in the Night” from sketches of a real tree and a real bungalow) for @hundreddollargallery @hamiltonartistsinc in Hamilton, opening during @supercrawl Friday Sept 12 7-9pm. Every
Hello grid, it’s been a while!

1 — Idyllic place to write at our cottage

2 — Plein air watercolour: testing the waters of this medium

3 — Pencil drawing: invented woman reading in an imagined walled garden

4 — Our ac
A lot of the time, I experience New York City as an intriguing arrangement of materials, shapes, and lines. Our pad is near Broadway but, for me, infrastructure has the starring role in this metropolis. Co-starring: topography and architecture. Speci
In my quest to live more of my life away from digital technology…
1. I’ve been hand drawing 
2. myself hand drawing
3. in an invented room 
4. on a large sketch pad that I thought would be good for quick studies. But I’ve spent hou
Naturally, a tree changes with the seasons. 

Though now the seasons have changed, unnaturally.

An ordinary scene from the past is made more beautiful by having become extraordinary.

1 + 3 / February 2021
2 + 4 / April 2021
Phones, phones, phones in a few of their forms and states and guises. When I was young, you had to go *to* the phone (in private) or go *find* one (in public). Now you can't ever get away from them (or understand what privacy even means). And yet...h
Photographically speaking, I'm acting like the teenager I used to be: film camera with a focus on people in my life. In this case, the delightful @jim.moske. 
1) in contemplation at The Brain, Hamilton — captured with a borrowed medium-format B
After five years of photographing Stelco Tower from below, it was exhilarating to reverse the direction of my view. I'm grateful to First Real Properties / Yale Canada, the building owners, for the invitation to visit the highest vacant floor, which
And I'm thinking, "Damn, if these walls could talk" (oh-oh-oh) / Well, they'd be like (oh-oh-oh) / Shit is crazy, right? (Oh-oh-oh) — Walls Could talk / Halsey.
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#hamont #hamiltonstreets #foundsituations_mag #thisaintartschool
March in NYC was a delightful month of further urban adventures with moments of great light and insights:
1. The Bronx
2. Macombs Dam Bridge, between Manhattan and The Bronx
3. Central Park, Manhattan
4. Chelsea, Manhattan
5 and 6. Washington Heights
CALLing all citizens of or visitors to Hamilton: Has Stelco Tower played a tiny or significant part in your life or consciousness at some point in the 5 decades it has stood in the centre of Hamilton? Do you or does someone you know have a memory, ex
Looking at Manhattan with @jim.moske. Past, present, and future.
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#newyorkcity #brooklyn #redhook #allcitiesarebeautiful #somewheremagazine #subjectivelyobjective #documentingspace
Save. The. Date! The launch for my photo book Stelco Tower: A Love Story is Saturday April 29th 7 to 9 pm at Rooney's photo book shop (@shoprooneys 724 Main St. E.) in Hamilton, Ontario. 
This self-published book not only commemorates Stelco Tower as
Welcome to the Ambitious City! Hamilton is undergoing an urban renaissance not unlike the one that gave us the handsomely modern Stelco Tower at Jackson Square fifty years ago. This time around, cranes encircle this central building —cranes tha
In 1973, the rate of inflation in Canada was 7.49%, Rice-A-Roni was served up around the nation, and a very special building was completed in Hamilton for all to admire and deeply love. Happy 50th Constructionyear, Stelco Tower! Look at you, steel st