Sarah “Birdie” Niksa is an artist originally from the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Her artwork is created from the spirit within and from a well of emotions as a form of exploration and catharsis of the psyche. Her stories are ones that express the strangeness of the human experience. Crafted from a collection of hopeful discoveries of the self and alternate realities. She plants seeds of ideas in her sketchbook where she then cultivates her novel ideas. Her sketchbook becomes a place that is safe and free in her wild expression. A place of refuge amongst pages and pages of messy anecdotes, expanding the boundaries of character design and world building.