Description: This is the online portfolio of Clare Johnson, artist and writer. The site includes painting and drawing galleries, examples of her writing and biographical information.
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The fact that we can only exist in one time and place is both an ordinary truth and a tragic one. We inevitably lose loved ones, have to live away from friends, see landscapes change, wish we could relive some great day. My work is a futile yet sincere attempt to locate and recover these lost things. It tries to let us exist again with what has slipped away, hovering between now and then. Persistent themes include memory, absence, growing up, fragmentation, nostalgia, and in-betweenness. I'm inspired by the
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