Sara Bahr is a trans diorama and miniature artist, exploring the use of miniature scenes to express stories they have written and imagined. Sara is studying Studio Art and Graphic Design at Edgewood College and is expected to graduate May 2023. Their work was accepted into the juried 2022 Edgewood College Student Art Exhibit. Sara is an active member of the Madison Miniatures Painting Group, and has practiced and studied the art of diorama making through model train conventions, legos, and tabletop games.

I create three dimensional figures as characters who represent stories of healing. My intention is that these stories offer a sense of pathway to growth and self discovery even in dire situations. By projecting an ideology, a passion, or a trauma onto these characters and watching their path to recovery and growth has been an excellent method of introspection for myself. 

My dioramas function as a lens to view a world separate yet familiar to our own, with recurring figures experiencing their own lives in pockets of frozen time. My stories breathe life into these characters, who embody vessels of change. These moments of escape in the mind acts as tools of introspection, and the characters conjured up serve as vessels for unexplored parts of the mind and soul.