Anna Leigh Clem – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
An intimate sequence of pictures created utilizing flower pigments by Massachusetts-based artist Anna Leigh Clem. Clem works in quite a lot of mediums together with pictures, textual content, ebook arts, video, and sculpture. She is especially within the nature of ephemerality, and her work typically seeks to make tangible the invisible realms of recollections, desires, and childhood. This specific set of pictures is impressed by her childhood backyard. Whereas that area not exists bodily, Clem used her dad and mom’ present-day backyard as a information, taking images in an effort to seize the essence of place and herself in it, as she explains:
“Entranced by the vibrancy of the summer time season, I turned to the anthotype photographic course of. Utilizing the flower’s pigment to make light-sensitive emulsions, my backyard pictures had been impressed upon the botanical distillations by the solar’s rays. The outcomes are like present-time fossils, or jars of preserves, emphasizing the {photograph}’s inherent stillness and marked “loss of life” of the topic. This act of assortment and preservation initially reworked the backyard’s passing into one thing extra lasting than a bloom, but because of the instability of each anthotypes and life alike, turned an train in acceptance—of petals falling to the bottom.”
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