Anna Leigh Clem

Photo-based Artist
grounded
    
Public Project
grounded
Copyright Anna Leigh Clem 2025
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 artist's book (2014)
Edition of 100

Teenage years are laden with fear, wonder, and self-doubt. This book attempts to dissect that strange age as well as cope with my bittersweet nostalgia. 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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