Sarah “Birdie” Niksa is an artist originally from Crystal Lake, IL 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 “bird brain” 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 of the birdiest of brains. The bird brain plants her seeds in her sketchbooks where she cultivates her novel ideas and is 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.