"Love Will See You Through: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Six Guiding Beliefs (as told by his niece)"

Named Bank Street College's Best Children's Book of the Year and recognized by the Society of Illustrators Illustration Annual

About Love Will See You Through:
The niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. reveals six timeless and universal principles that encompass the civil rights leader’s greatest legacy: Love will see you through.

"Tree of Life" at Brightview West End, Rockville Maryland

The “Tree of Life” permanent public art installation was conceived, designed, and produced by lead artist Sally Wern Comport in collaboration with ArtWalk, The Shelter Group, Hord Coplan Macht Archictecture, VisArts, and the City of Rockville to designate Brightview West End as a vibrant senior living community within the cultural hub of downtown Rockville.  62 artists– local and international, young and old, professional and amateur, and many residents of Brightview communities up and down the Eastern U.S.– all contributed their hand and vision to the images texturizing the overall 6-story pi

Leftovers: The Last Streetcar Sites, 2018

I spent May 2017-May 2018 working with the archives of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, seeking out historic images and then trying to locate in them in today's landscape. My focus was the remaining locations of various sites pertaining to the now defunct Baltimore City streetcar system. Once one of the most extensive transit systems in the world with over 400 miles of track,  the streetcars were taken out in 1963 and replaced by the current bus routes or nothing at all.

Pyramids Fall Too (2016 - 2019)

".......The pyramid leitmotif in her recent work here feels indebted to Milad's Egyptian and Honduran background; ancient cultures in both regions erected pyramids. Visually tweaking, erasing, camouflaging, obliterating, and remixing that pyramid shape reads like the artist pointing out that living in a country/on a planet where identity—ethnic, racial, gender, etc.—is fundamental for the organizing power structure to define who you are, you can feel a little unmoored if the available boxes don't always seem like the right fit.

Arches (2018-2019)

We assign a value to objects, and those same objects can shift meaning depending on perspective, time in history, and their given cultural context. How does a society come to these determinations, who has dominion over what is highly valued or not? As an artist, there's no doubt I make choices of what to keep precious or otherwise discard in my studio. In my current studio practice, I cut up older completed drawings, in some cases works I've held on for years, and now use for collage material to redefine their value and purpose.

COLLAGE

My decades long obsession with pop culture, ephemera and printed materials has gone from one form of inspiration to another. As a graphic designer it informed me and served as reference material, in recent years it has reminded me of how we are consumers,  how we long for new toys and shiny new acquisitions only to dispose of them for the next distraction.

Hot House Hybrids

Mula Bandha
Lavender. lemon thyme, wild raspberry
sweet basil, radish
ravishing arugula
my friends all
 
I am but a delicate flower
timeless
immortal
destined to live and die
and live again
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The soft fragrant folds of my petals explode
in watermelon, tangerine, strawberry
lemon-lime and plum
Not to mention the velvety green

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