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Clare is an artist and writer from the back deserts of Oregon. Her love of nature, history, humanity, myths,  and curiosities fuels her projects. Most notably, her love of Antarctic history inspired the adventure series, Antrica. Her other book titles include The Wayward Stars, Last Stop, and This Artbook Sucks (But will make you a better artist).

Traditionally trained in oil painting and drawing, Clare revels in bringing classical elements to comics and animation. 

Clare says hello from her cave in the desert, peaking out time to time shroud in cobwebs and bones, telling those who listen what she found there (but maybe shouldn't have).

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Honesty + Humanity

8/13/2017

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Making Something Important


What makes something important?
Honesty.

Art and writing can be imperfect. Perfectly flawed, like humanity.
I don't think you can make something meaningful unless you bring complete, vulnerable truth to it. Put it out there and say, 'this is the pure, ugly, beautiful, chaotic truth.' Even when it feels like it's clique, over used, or overstated.

No, it's not.

Someone else might have said it, but not in a way that YOU can say it. It's important to remember that, when your making things, or doing whatever it is that you do.

Making art is important. It's the shelf we sit our heavy hearts. It's the place we build ourselves up from, a flame we can light our candles with. Torches passed from country to country until they light a beacon of unity. Unity in Humanity. 

Humanity.

Honesty. 

We are imperfect beings,

and we are flawlessly flawed. 

But someone else needs to hear the story, 
so they can get through it,
or see something
or carry another torch. 

If you're not dead, keep going.
If you get killed, walk it off.

What you do is important.

Go latch onto what holds  you up. Make something else.
Somebodies world might depend on it.

I salute you, fellow artist.
Love Clare
​8-14-17

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