Rachel Clark
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I identify as a painter, but during the pandemic I've found myself reaching beyond my brushes and easel for a media that might better convey what this time has felt like. We have spent time inside and time behind glass, whether that of a window or the screens of our computers and phones. My work is about my own experience, but I hope it is about you as well, and my desire to reach you. 

To create these photographs, I documented personal installations of text and adhesive tape within areas of transition in my home with my iPhone. Through the photo series, I sought to explore my desire for connection and community, as well as the feelings of anxiety brought on by the pandemic. For some photographs, I used tape as a filter, as well as using it as a substrate on which to document my experience. My photos are about exposure, touch, sensitivity, flawed barriers and protection, repair, and a desire to be close with others, despite it all.




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Like being that close would be enough. digital photo, 2021.
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What we talked and didn't talk about. digital photo, 2021.

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Catch and Catching (diptych) digital photo, 2021.
In the ceramics studio. I have constructed both thrown and hand-built forms that investigated the same themes I have been curious about in my painted work. I sought to create functional vessels that could express a feeling of familiarity, recognition, and place, that would make viewers want to hold them, and connect with my own experience of place. 
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Buildings to drink from. hand-built stoneware with oxides and cone 10 glaze. 
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  • Portfolio
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    • PEOPLE AND PLACES
    • UNPAINTED
  • About
  • CV
  • Shop