Kira Saks is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans from printmaking, quilting and illustration to figurative sculptural work utilizing ceramics, found objects and mulberry fiber. Their work centers on a personal narrative shaped by their own experiences with queerness and neurodivergence, and a belief in the power of the unknowable. Their practice draws from cryptozoology, folk tradition, ghost stories, and rituals, forming narratives that emphasize meaningful points of overlap between absurdity and sincerity.

Kira approaches making as ritual through slow and intentional processes centered around materiality and tactility. The majority of their work unfolds in iterations and sequences that shift over time, emphasizing how meaning builds through intention, repetition and care. As a printmaker, they explore the push and pull between replicability and uniqueness, and how materials and images can layer to create contexts for one another. Through the use of silhouette and repeated symbols, Kira explores the impulse to archive things that cannot be proven– memories, cryptids, lost feelings, half-remembered stories. As these ideas build on one another, they form a larger and ever-evolving mythology reflective of Kira’s own imagined reality.

Kira’s hybrid material language is shaped by both research and obsession– knots, folk altars, trail cams, ghost hunting shows, and significant physical locations. In a world that promotes legibility through normativity, Kira’s work champions mystery as a kind of refuge– a way to be seen not by recognition, but through resonance.

To believe in the unknowable resonance, Kira suggests, is to believe in each other.