Artist Sacha Hope greets a child attending her Personal Political Pretty solo art show at Dorland Mountain Arts Saturday, Oct. 14. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo
Local Aguanga artist Sacha Hope took the Dorland Mountain Arts community by colorful storm in a solo art exhibit reception titled Personal Political Pretty, Saturday, Oct. 14.Works inspired by her battle with breast cancer reflected both pain and victory in a vivid swirl of color and shapes.Hope is battling an aggressive form of breast cancer. Diagnosed in the spring of 2020, she has had several surgeries, courses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. She is currently in remission.Inside the Dorland Community Arts Center, forty-five works of art were installed, including paintings and busts of Hope's breasts created prior to her full mastectomy in 2022. One doorway was obstructed by a painted chemo infusion bag exhibit. The paintings were a glorious riot of color, proclaiming
