Anna Leigh Clem

Photo-based Artist
    
grounded
Location: Marblehead, MA
Nationality: American
Biography: Anna Leigh Clem  is an artist working in photography, text, book arts, video, sculpture, and other media to investigate the nature of ephemerality. Compelled by the ineffable secrets embedded in memories, dreams, and childhood, her work... MORE
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grounded
Copyright Anna Leigh Clem 2024
Date of Work Jun 2004 - Aug 2015
Updated Apr 2017
Location New Paltz, NY
Topics Abstract, Adolescence, Beauty, Conceptual, Documentary, Dreams, Emotion, Energy, Fear, Fine Art, Freedom, Friends + Family, Happiness, Hope, Landscape, Loss, Love, Mixed Medium, Personal, Portraiture, Teens, Yearning, Youth
Selections from self-published book (2014)

Teenage years are laden with fear, wonder, and self-doubt. In attempt to dissect that strange age as well as cope with my own bittersweet nostalgia, I have put together my first publication. All the photographs are from my high school years, and the typed text is excerpted from nighttime AIM (instant message) conversations that took place during that time. I have drawn between the photographs to continue the line from fact to fiction, indulging my imagination, which grows more vivid as the memories fade.

A heartfelt thank you to the po’ backpack gang roaming the streets of New Paltz, the seventies circle rolling ‘round the bungalow, and the beautiful losers dreaming atop an airfield, drifting downstream.

We are grounded. And yet the sky is not the limit.



To purchase a copy of grounded, please visit my store!


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