Sharon O’Callaghan Shero

15Mar 2025 Sharon O’Callaghan Shero

the Dopp Kit, its travels, and, incidentally, me

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all the years my husband and before him, a pre-husband I suppose we travelled within our known territories and beyond our imaginations checking into lodgings, tenuously straddling a crabbed sink... Read More

14Nov 2024 Sharon O’Callaghan Shero

Hello Hello

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sometimes iʼm this tinny-tiny voice at the end of a string whispering beneath the stacca-toed line so all you sense is my pulse. Hai-lo sometimes iʼm this tin-ny-tiny voice at... Read More

19Sep 2023 Sharon O’Callaghan Shero

I Hear Emo

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There it is again I dial my wrists and thus the handles curating the temperature The water scintillates itself a crocked, interred army, straight line attack pulsing in the fore... Read More

22Aug 2021 Sharon O’Callaghan Shero

Laying Over in SEATAC

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Here was a man or maybe just an old boy [Spectacles and moony face made his age recherché] Who jiggled his left leg with profound fury While his left hand... Read More

A bit about Sharon: Narratives have always been my compass whenever I create a portfolio of art or writing poetry. With poetry I only have to look around me to absorb the impact of experience or patch together the flotsam and jetsam of a faded dream. For my artwork, I begin with a “germ” of a concept and since I prefer not to storybook the work, the series often evolves into an unexpected conclusion, with plot and image twists, turns, and the occasional “aha!” moment along the way.

As an artist or writer, it seems I am influenced by every artist I discover; I am, however, particularly indebted to Francis Bacon, Joseph Cornell, and Elliott Hundley. And since my work is suffused in narratives, I must recognize the Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, James Tate, the folk customs of rural Louisiana, and my mother, Louise O’Callaghan, who early-on captivated my imagination with her Irish-Catholic tales.