When this tender, behind-the-scenes look at Sarah Cain's Highland Park home and studio, begins, she's taking down her 15-foot mural, "Runaway," installed in the DTLA's Farmers and Merchants Bank for Painting in Place. The grace of Cain's goodbye fits perfectly with the painter's commitment to experimentation and nonattachment in her work and in life. She compares her studio practice to her four feral cats: "loving something means accepting it's going to leave when it wants to. Accepting your lack of control." Cain is after work that breaths. Her palate is informed by her first memories of color: exuberant yellows pulled from hot air balloons, purple ribbons from the county fair. She finds form through materials, whether they're "super femme" craft supplies like lanyards, feathers and plastic beads, or canvas, stretcher bars, and paint), and she imbues these would-be "stupid ideas" with a studied ease and delicate glee.

 

a film by

 

Aubree Bernier-Clarke

 

 

Sarah Cain, Runaway (2013)

 

courtesy of LAND Exhibition: Painting in Place

 

Farmers and Merchants Bank, Downtown Los Angeles

 

 

Music:

 

 

"SEX PARTY"

 

Written by: Christopher Kline

 

Performed by: The Hush Hush

 

Courtesy of the artist

 

 

 

"MODERN"

 

Written by: Hecuba

 

Performed by: Hecuba

 

Courtesy of: Germ

 

 

 

"SHAG CARPET"

 

Written by: Jonathan Wolf

 

Performed by: WHY?

 

From the Sod To Seed EP

 

Courtesy of: Anticon

 

 

 

"ALL NIGHT"

 

Written by: Matteah Baim

 

Performed by: Matteah Baim

 

Courtesy of: Revolver USA

 

 

 

 

 

Special thanks:

 

Stormy, Grey Beau, Lion, Emerald, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)

 

 

 

Sarah Cain

 

www.honorfraser.com

 

Aubree Bernier-Clarke

 

www.aubreebernierclarke.com