M.K. Sadler / Candela (red) Photographs she molds and manipulates strips

she molds and manipulates strips of canvas to echo these frequencies

This encouragement led her to photography

capturing the fragile nature of life beneath the surface

layered textures

Colour acts as both an emotional anchor and structural device

M.K. Sadler / Candela (red) Photographs she molds and manipulates stripsM. K. Sadler is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, collage, design, and photography. Her work is deeply observational and playful, exploring emotional spaces, grief, and queerness. M. K. grew up in Southeast Texas, looking up at walls filled with the ink paintings her grandmother had collected during her childhood in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Her grandmothers influence, alongside a degree in Communication Design and over ten years