Blink Friction Manifesto
Blink Friction Arts — Manifesto Blink Friction Arts was founded by Sarnia de la Maré in 2025 as an independent studio movement rooted in reuse, experimentation, and cultural salvage. The project emerged from working with limited resources in a period of rising living costs and shrinking access to creative materials. Many Blink Friction works are created using reclaimed, surplus, failed, or discarded stock — vinyl records, test prints, manuscripts, packaging, and rescued paper — transformed through layering, mark-making, and symbolic systems into unique artefacts. Blink Friction rejects the idea that artistic value comes from expensive materials, elite spaces, or opaque pricing structures. Value comes from attention, labour, risk, and meaning. The studio operates through multiple channels: • Open auctions and low-cost releases, designed to keep original art in circulation and accessible • Signature and archive-level works, developed over time • A print and merchandise line...















































