Artist • Creative Director • Environmental Designer

Anastajah Razatos is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, glass, ceramics, fiber, collage, performance, olfactory composition, and spatial design. Her practice extends beyond discrete objects into immersive environments, where material, sensory, and spatial elements are composed to shape perception and lived experience.

She is drawn to processes that resist permanence—melting, cracking, unraveling, dissolving—and approaches these as ways of examining how experience itself behaves. Across mediums, her work constructs conditions in which form remains contingent, shifting, and responsive rather than fixed.

Her early work in performance, including fire-based practice and Shakespeare, established a foundation in rhythm, timing, and presence. This continues to inform her work across sculpture, installation, and environment.

Her design practice extends into interior environments, costuming, and large-scale seasonal installations, including immersive holiday and Christmas environments. These works transform space through light, texture, and atmosphere, functioning as temporal compositions.

Alongside her artistic work, Razatos has spent over 30 years working with the body as a birth doula, massage therapist, and aesthetician, and more than 15 years teaching meditation practices. She is also the author of multiple books, including children’s work integrating yoga and creative engagement.

Her work is informed by principles from Theravāda Buddhism, particularly impermanence and the impersonal nature of experience.

She is the founder of a developing cultural arts campus in Ladora, Iowa.