“Words are mad hard,
can you just draw it?”
Modern ‘hieroglyphs’ by
Sabrina Angel Newsome
In collaboration with the unseen, this body of work is my own visually symbolic language (or symbolic lexicon) that I’ve been writing and drawing for some time.
Like a melody you can’t get out of your head, I avoided finishing this collection for a long time—until I couldn’t hold it in anymore. So i poured what was communicated to me onto canvas, paper, and in stories.
La familia te conoce
Hawaiian fruit punch
18 x 24 | Acrylic
A feeling telling me I need to eat more fruits & to stay away from the “neighborhood boys”.
Familia en la playa
18 x 24 | Acrylic
A dream of a Gustav Klimt painting like energy ball that was washing My hair by an ocean. The Birds are apparently my fam.
“The tongue is very powerful… and funny ”
24 x36 | Acrylic paint
While looking through my dad’s family photos, I noticed a painting of a vase with sunflowers in the background, and in another one i saw this little white glowy shape above my dad’s head. Naturally, it made me want to paint. While thinking, I felt this random pull to look up Art Deco architecture…and somehow all that mashed together into this piece.
At one point, something told me to turn the painting upside down. When I did, I realized what i painted, started to look like a giant mouth—almost like I was emerging from it. So I leaned into that interpretation.
There’s also this funny ancestral layer because when I see myself in the hood, all I can want to say is: ‘I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO,’ which is a Beavis and Butthead reference my dad and I always laughed at. So… there’s definitely something ancestral and playful happening here, but also something about using my voice.
Numero 784
9x12 | Gouache
The first spirit I saw was in a baby photo of me, it looked like a butterfly that was the color of air. 784 is a number i got while looking at the elements in here, for example: Sabrina 7 letters +8 butterflies+ 4 leaf clovers= 784 . All elements I love.
Angel Number 784 signifies that your hard work, discipline, and dedication are paying off, leading to solid progress and abundance, even if it's not immediately visible; it's a message of encouragement from the universe that your efforts are building something substantial and that financial success and spiritual growth are on the horizon.
La durecha cabaza
24x36 | Acrylic
Precognition of when I would hurt my own hand + meeting spirit guides + choosing how to respond to it all.
El ozo de peluche y
La gigante amore
One day I woke up with this story. It came to me in part english and spanish, (contradictory i know right?).
This story starts with two poppy flowers and it’s raining .
The scene then zooms down to the ground where you see a little teddy bear under a leaf. Stuffing is seen coming out the side of the bear. All of a sudden, the rain stops, and the teddy bear looks up to see this giant women.
The lady picks up the bear, and she notices the bear is loosing stuffing, and she sews him back together. The bear then notices the giant lady’s hair got frizzy after she helped him. So the teddy bear tells the lady to burry him so he can grow into the food she needs, which is maiz to be exact. Once the giant lady eats the maiz she goes back to her full self.
Why did i draw this?
Here’s what i think:
This is a story about reciprocal care.
The teddy bear is my symbol of innocence, softness, vulnerability—it’s my fav animal since a child.
The giant woman represents your higher self / adult self / protector self—the powerful part of you that can hold and heal.
You (the teddy bear) have been “losing stuffing”—your energy, softness, or sense of wholeness being pulled out by life, relationships, or stress.
Another version of you (the giant woman) steps in to repair what’s been damaged. She sews you up → self-nurturing, self-repair, reclaiming pieces of yourself.
But this giant woman is also depleted. She needs nourishment too.
When the teddy sacrafices himself to give her maíz, which is the perfect symbol:
Maíz = life force
Maíz = cultural memory
Maíz = grounding nourishment
Maíz = something ancient and sustaining
So the healed inner child restores the adult self with ancestral nourishment.
It’s a mutual healing loop inside one person. Your inner child and your ancient self are healing each other, and maíz is the sacred lifeforce that reconnects you to your true origin and fullness.
“Growing pains”
“Where was I
before this?”
9 x 12 | Gouache on paper.
”I slipped into a moment of absolute presence—so vivid it frightened me. I didn’t know why i asked myself that question, or… did someone else ask me that question & i heard it”
The Applied New Media Arts “Hierophant”
9 x 12 | Acrylic on canvas
”Ugh another wave…Is she going to keep dying like this? Yea, till she figures it out”-inspo from Midnight Gospel Annihilation of joy episode
“It feels like Ventriloquism”
This painting is a moment where i became aware of when I was channeling & i’m showing myself what it looks like. “In one ear and out the other”
In this experience, I was channeling a male presence. It felt like I was wearing a beard, and I could feel his mouth moving with mine. That’s how I knew I was speaking for someone else.. I also can "‘see’ through their eyes .
Over time, I’ve realized some people or souls have a hard time communicating— so people like me show up—so i can express the things others can’t or won’t say.
36 x 48 | Acrylic paint
“You’re my family”
Back in 2024, I randomly stopped at a booth and met a kind blonde-haired woman named Vicky Gay. She was a psychic medium, and we bonded instantly over having the same angelic aura crystal. She told me things about myself that I needed to hear—things I’d spent years avoiding because I already felt ‘different,’ not like everyone else. But she encouraged me to be ‘weirder than weird.’
After that, I started having recurring dreams of me being around that blonde-haired woman. I think this painting is a symbolic version of those dreams. It feels like sitting between worlds—aware, but able to float between realms most people don’t know is there”
18 x 24 | Acrylic paint