Anna Leigh Clem

Photo-based Artist
    
It will become something
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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It will become something
Copyright Anna Leigh Clem 2024
Date of Work Jul 2011 - May 2014
Updated Mar 2017
Topics Adolescence, Adulthood, Arts, Childhood, Children, Conceptual, Documentary, Emotion, Environmental, Fear, Fine Art, Freedom, Hope, Investigations, Landscape, Loss, Mixed Medium, Personal, Photography, Portraiture, Relationships, Self-Discovery, Sorrow, Still life, Yearning, Youth

Hardcover, 8"x8" book (closed)

(2011–12)

As we move away from the purity of our births, we become complex and gnarled like trunks of trees. Underneath all the layers, the core remains the same.

I have taken up the endeavor of excavating the self. I thought we had become strangers, my child-self and I. I felt as though she had gone missing. As I search through the layers I catch a glimpse of her. She’s been there, patiently waiting.

I was born an observer. In the years since, I have gathered my feelings and surroundings to excess. I now attempt to sort my gatherings so that maybe I can understand. Together, it will become something. Together, we will find ourself. She has inspired me.



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