Log in to hire Anna Leigh

Anna Leigh Clem

Photo-based Artist
    
The Rings of My Limbs
Public Project
The Rings of My Limbs
Copyright Anna Leigh Clem 2024
Date of Work Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Updated May 2020
Topics Abstract, Arts, Conceptual, Emotion, Environmental, Fine Art, Forest, Freedom, Landscape, Personal, Photography, Portraiture, Self-Discovery, Yearning, Youth

(2013)

Archival pigment prints, 11"x14"

There’s a part of me that is ready to fall away. I keep searching for the whole, and still I peer down the deep dark hollow hole. What I wish to do is chip the dead away like excess bark, but live trees don’t shed…they grow into their selves and their surroundings. I am not a tree however, so what to do with me?

I use instant film to energize my creative process: the emergence of each image adds an element of magic to the experience. What would otherwise be a straightforward photograph is layered with serendipity, lending to the content’s ethereality. The pinhole Polaroid process is particularly sympathetic to making self-portraits, as I am able to set up the composition, open the shutter and take my place within the frame. Produced without self-timer or cable release, the photograph records my spontaneous performance within the composition allowing for both the carefully planned and the accidental.


14,805

Also by Anna Leigh Clem —

Project

Innermost House (WIP)

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

In the Orangery

Anna Leigh Clem / Garrison, New York
Project

Tucked into the Garden Bed - Installation

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

Laden

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

Tucked into the Garden Bed

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

Visitor

Anna Leigh Clem / Somerville
Project

The Perennial Garden

Anna Leigh Clem / Somerville, MA
Project

Blue Cento

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

Floating Petals - paper sculptures

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

I walk to break free of the fear.

Anna Leigh Clem / Souris, Prince Edward Island
Project

Floating Petals - Book

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

The Perennial Garden - Book (WIP)

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

Turning

Anna Leigh Clem
Project

shapeshifter

Anna Leigh Clem / Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Project

Holes

Anna Leigh Clem / Hudson Valley, New York
Project

To be oneself completely

Anna Leigh Clem / Hudson Valley, NY
Project

Where the Road Goes

Anna Leigh Clem / County Cork, Ireland
Project

grounded

Anna Leigh Clem / New Paltz, NY
Project

It will become something

Anna Leigh Clem
The Rings of My Limbs by Anna Leigh Clem
Sign-up for
For more access