Sanaa’s work imagines diminutive humans coexisting with gigantic creatures, allegories for learning to live with overwhelming, larger-than-life emotions. Better to learn how to ride with these giants, how to rest alongside them. Even when we feel small, we belong to a special place and time.
The weight of anxiety, depression, alienation, and overthinking can destroy us. But we can adapt to thees heavyweights , and even learn from them a uniquely sensitive perspective to go to places others can’t.
Sanaa paints the protagonists she wishes she saw in fantastical adventures growing up, but who were usually absent. Rendering is healing and grounding: imagining the unknown as worthy of curiosity, weird as beautiful, the underestimated as self-possessed, heavy as balanced. Both/And is everything.
