dl clay

dl clay creates in her Otter Point home where she lives with her husband and rescue dog,Sass.  She is a curious writer, artist and experimentalist working in a variety of art mediums and is in a constant state of exploration, experimentation and witnessing.  She works intuitively to share and connect by creating poetry, mixed media, sculpture and whatever else asks to be made.  Her writing informs her art making and her mixed media work informs her poetry. Currently she is working on a few linked projects exploring landscape, memory and remembering.

In response to my mother's ongoing dementia and to my own aging, I have been exploring memory and what it is to remember. There is an ethereal quality to memory, to what we store in our minds and bodies. Things rise to the surface of our awareness then slowly, or sometimes rapidly, disintegrate.

In a short poem called "memory sometimes", I explore what it is to be surrounded by a new, beautiful landscape and my efforts to save the feelings and connection I have to it. It begins: "I remember last week's view out the window. the blue habit of it. how it changes - fluid as what it contains". It ends with “how many ways to say this – how many ways to remember.”

I continue to explore.