Sawyer conducts research and makes artwork that enriches the Natalie Brettschneider Archive, a genre-defying fictional Canadian artist active in the early 20th-century.
[4] Brettschneider's life - as seen through letters, photographs, paintings and film - intersects with and brings light to a rich community of interdisciplinary women artists working in Canada and abroad.
Over the course of nearly a year, Sawyer's camera recorded the slow withdrawal of her father's presence from a room where he had spent countless hours, as hundreds of historical artifacts, slides, and his library and professional papers, were carefully photographed, catalogued, and archived.
[7] Exhibited in 2017 at Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC, in conjunction with the Capture Festival of Photography, this project is a video and group of photographs based on an aria written by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell.
[10] ion Zoo was also commissioned by Los Angeles-based composer Michael Vlatkovich and Albuquerque-based poet Mark Weber to record the album Elasticity.