Sarah Vandermeer is a New Orleans-based artist currently pursuing an MFA in Art and Ecology at the Burren College of Art in Ireland. Her work engages deeply with the emotional resonance of landscape and the uncanny aspects of spaces designed to evoke comfort or beauty. She is particularly interested in how spaces, despite their intended purpose, can subtly provoke unease, revealing a paradox where the very environments meant to soothe us instead expose existential anxieties. Through her work, Vandermeer investigates the disconnect between the atmosphere a space is designed to create and the emotional response it actually evokes. These spaces, rather than offering comfort, often unveil an underlying tension: an awareness of the fragility of our existence, in relation to the ecological crises we face.