Abbott's foray in the art world began with photography. Although she loved the black and white process, she sought to expand her vision. She began mixing paint with photographs, using found objects such as car doors for frames, and fire to light up an image. Her work now includes light boxes, abstract paintings with photographic transfers, and large scale photographs mounted on plexiglass. Abbott's work has been collected all over the world.
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For many years Sara Abbott has photographed and incorporated trees from all over the world in her mixed media and photographic work. She once created a series of photographic figurative work that mirrored images and created interesting lines and space that read abstractly from afar and photographic up close; for the Waiting in the Sun series, Abbott wanted to bring that idea into a more organic, free form image by using her tree photographs.
