Echoes of Belonging
Mixed media on canvas, 71 cm x 56 cm (28 in x 22 in), 2023
Mraish’s painting, Echoes of Belonging, draws its title and emotional resonance from Tomb’s lost exhibition. With particular attention to exploring memory, erasure, and cultural identity, the layered textures and abstract forms evoke the visible and invisible— echoing stories that persist beneath the surface despite having been neglected by time or suppression. Mraish approaches the canvas as an act of reclamation, using gestural strokes, embedded fragments, and layered color fields to explore how cultural memory survives through reinterpretation. The painting reflects on how identities, especially diasporic or marginalized ones, endure across time and displacement—resilient, evolving and unfinished. Ultimately, Echoes of Belonging is Mraish’s homage to memory as a living force.
Sara Mraish is an artist and an educator who thrives on creative self-expression. Mraish seeks to craft narratives that resonate deeply and inspire connections between people. She views herself as a link for audiences to engage with art in innovative means by celebrating curiosity and personal connection to the world. As Founder and CEO of ARCK (Art Resource Collaborative for Kids), she leads a movement to reimagine education by integrating the arts with leadership, civic engagement, and social justice. Her experience as an immigrant, artist, and mother propelled her to earn her Masters in Public Administration at Harvard to deepen her impact and effect change.