Sarah Wilkerson's work explores the liminal spaces where structure meets intuition—where light, shadow, and meaning coexist without resolution. Across visual art and systems design, she is drawn to the tension between clarity and ambiguity, presence and absence, and the quiet decisions that shape how something is experienced over time. Her images investigate life, self, and imagined narratives that resist simplification, inviting sustained attention rather than easy answers.
Inspired by Hitchcock, informed by cinematography, and guided by an enduring interest in how people perceive, remember, and interpret what they encounter, Sarah approaches photography as a practice of composition and intent. Rather than resolving ambiguity, she composes environments—visual and conceptual—that create space for dialogue between the work and the observer, leaving room for personal connection, interpretation, and curiosity.
A graduate of Duke University and Texas Law, Sarah is the author of Capture the Moment (Penguin Random House) and has spent the past decade studying and teaching creative practice through a multidisciplinary lens that draws on storytelling, psychology, and traditional artistic principles. Her current work focuses on building tools and systems that preserve intent, coherence, and creative integrity across complex projects. A lifelong dilettante, she can usually be found chasing rabbit trails, asking questions, making lists, or working late into the night on whatever problem has most recently captured her attention. She lives in North Carolina with her Army JAG husband, four children, and three dogs.
