"Clarity" by Leigh Ann Chambers

When at the Chowan personnel art exhibit I was originally drawn to a beautiful piece of art on a traditional canvas (the type of art I would immediately think of hanging on my wall in the living room) but then something else caught my attention. It was a piece of flooring covered by spray paint and enamal of different colors such as white, blue, purple, and tan. The title of this work is "Clarity" by Leigh Ann Chambers and although it was flooring, vinyl, it made a lot of sense to me.

Recently, I have felt like my life has been covered with a lot of stuff and that it has been hard to get back to the basics or the foundation of my life. The flooring reminded me of the foundation of my life, the area that starts with its original beauty then gets covered with all the mess gathered as life goes on. All of the paint spots, some nice and neat and others a mess, reminded me of how the foundation gets covered with all the things that must be done and things that are confusing. The nice neat sections that were painted represented, in my opinion, the things that have been put in my life that can be controlled and fit into their own special place. Then there where the the areas that looked like paint has been thrown without thought, some of these messes overlapped the nice neat sections, The messy part of the artwork represented all the confusing, hectic, and unorganized things that are thrown into life. With all of this said, the title "Clarity" reminded me that under all the stuff that must be done, all the chaos I encounter and the stuff piled on me there is a beautiful foundation. It is always there and although things may try to make it a mess, the foundation stays in tack and it is that foundation that holds everything together.