about

Sideways Gaze is an online writing and art project.

A sideways gaze illuminates the invisible or the core of anything by observing and exploring its edges, corners, castoffs, and seemingly meaningless details. Forms of sideways gaze: depth sounding, dowsing, shadow reading, dreaming.

My visual art interests itself with evolution, spirituality, mathematics, religious iconography, and the environment.

My influences include Hildegaard of Bingen and many medieval artists; psychedelia; Jo Knox, Ralph Frank, Banksy and other public artists; and the ecosystems in which I live.

About Ann Karp

I live and create in Missoula, Montana. A frequent traveler, I’ve made artwork for individuals, non-profits, and businesses in Montana, Georgia, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, Ontario, and Louisiana.

For several years, I worked as a commercial sign painter and muralist, using pinstriper’s paints to letter and adorn glass windows, wood, metal, and concrete for clients such as Edible Arrangements and Little Caesar’s Pizza. I recently began painting on canvas with artist’s oils, a formidable but welcome challenge. I’m currently looking forward to a return to drawing, my original expression.

I study art as a post-bac at the University of Montana. My works have appeared at the Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC), the Fresh Paint gallery, and the Computer Central gallery here in Missoula.

I live with my sweetheart Zippy Morocco and two ridiculous rats and also enjoy hiking, geocaching, sleeping, and staring at the sky.