Laura Clark

Photography & Sculpture

August Studios, 1320 East Pender, Vancouver

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura_marie_clark

As an artist, I create mixed media work because it provides an opportunity to capture everyday moments that may go unnoticed by others. My photography captures traces and evidence of human presence when people themselves are absent. My work reflects an interest in how we choose, individually and collectively, to physically and emotionally occupy environments. I am inspired by signifiers that are relatable, familiar and ever-changing to me and I focus on the temporary existence of time and space from moment to moment in my experience.

My work explores flowers in the occasions of life and death - in celebration, memory, and in mourning. Flowers are reminders and remnants, mementos of lives once lived. I create art to capture and preserve the essence of being in these moments. This is a way to hold onto and embrace time.

Currently, I am exploring and pursuing my interest in botanicals as an extension of human expression with photography and mixed media sculptural art that combines my photographs with diverse mediums, such as found and collected objects, natural and artificial materials, remaining fragments which trigger

personal feelings and memories.