White cherry blossoms reaching for the blue sky.

Welcome to where we evolve storytelling…

Let's rebuild the way we create and publish all kinds of art.

The world is woven together with stories.

And the current fabric is fraying. So let’s repair it!

And as you know, we need to solve a lotta problems!

I'm here to help you create art, even and especially as we live through this bonkers era of AI and an avalanche of stressful shifts.

To me, art is simply a story-holder, and people deserve support and fellowship in telling the stories that only they can. Plus, how exciting is it that art can take endless forms?

Because I love filming and writing and crafting and playing in many mediums, while I'm behind the scenes making my art, I'm also building a new type of story holder so we can all expand our digital abilities while keeping stories safe from scraping.

Having helped many artists (and a scientist!) translate their ideas into reality, I know firsthand how the narrative inside you might mend the timeline and/or someone in it, including yourself.

Personally, the main component of my recovery from PTSD and burnout continues to be via creativity (and therapy), and science shows that practicing creative skills can do the same for you.

As I work away from the public internet to write, record, code and craft a new container to share storyverses through, I invite you to be part of that process, starting with my mailing list.

Join in as the projects progress…

What if art's beauty helps cure burnout?

In the works from Sarah:

A New Publishing Form

Made of many art forms, each container holds a storyverse safe from Scrapists.

A Time Travel Novel

Come along as a kid who's terrified of the future ends up falling in love with it.

A Science Fiction Podcast

Explore what happens when an AI entity escapes to seek a human parent.

A Documentary Project

Find out why I finished my first feature and will never release that film.

An Immersive Course

Access a clear guide of step-by-step actions to produce complex creative work.

Creativity = Problem-Solving + Story

We need solutions to remedy what’s going wrong, and stories help the medicine not only go down, but make sense.

Create

Most of the work I make is just for me and you can do the same! Despite pressure to post everything, what if we consider creativity a skill instead of a commodity?

Recover

Art can slow down time, the opposite effect of trauma's too-fast and chaos's too-much. Creation can also blink time away with joy when we're up to our elbows in it.

Learn

Anything I learn, I'm honored to teach. Anything you see me do and want to do, too, please let me know and I'll happily share how. Let's start virtuous cycles.

Enjoy

Create

Without appreciation, what’s the point? Much of the fuel artists run on is in absorbing the beauty around us, to be an audience of every detail.

Most of the work I make is just for me and you can do the same! Despite pressure to post everything, what if we consider creativity a skill instead of a commodity?

Engage

Recover

Funny how recharging our energy can come from having our hands touch materials and connect with collaborators. Contact can lead to solutions.

Art can slow down time, the opposite effect of trauma's too-fast and chaos's too-much. Creation can also blink time away with joy when we're up to our elbows in it.

Explore

Learn

Turning actions into experiments helps me take the performance pressure off and bring back playtime. Exploring leads to our best work.

Anything I learn, I'm honored to teach. Anything you see me do and want to do, too, please let me know and I'll happily share how. Let's start virtuous cycles.

Enjoy

Without appreciation, what’s the point? Much of the fuel artists run on is in absorbing the beauty around us, to be an audience of every detail.

Engage

Funny how recharging our energy can come from having our hands touch materials and connect with collaborators. Contact can lead to solutions.

Explore

Turning actions into experiments helps me take the performance pressure off and bring back playtime. Exploring leads to our best work.

Reclaim your creativity…

Enjoy this short film to see what I bring to your table.

Watch This!

Who's this human?

I'm Sarah, an artist here to help you build your artistry.

For years, I disappeared from the public internet to privately help fellow creatives and construct a complex portfolio. Why?

I bet you know why. You’ve felt it, too, haven’t you? This overwhelming online environment that destroys focus? That dumpster-fire feeling of chaos, of scraping, of nihilism?

After I developed complex PTSD and burnout, I stepped away from the (anti)social media circus. What a privilege to revive my brain with the creative skills I was trained to practice.

How lucky I am to have earned my Master’s Degree in Filmmaking and Bachelor’s in Theater, and oh how I know not everyone has access to that training.

Thing is, I don’t just want creativity’s powers for myself, I’d love as many problem-solving storytellers around as possible.

And I want to live in a world where we have a wonderful way of passing our projects to audiences without them being stolen.

So here’s what I propose: I’m building a safe container for publishing my own storyverses, and as I send them sailing towards you on a new digital sea, I’ll invite you inside so you can create storyverses alongside me.

Sarah Arlen

Come along on the creative adventure!

As I build my projects, I'll roll out support for you to build yours, too, so stay tuned with updates by joining.