Clayton explains, “The landscape of reclamation was really about the process of reclaiming ourselves. The concepts I explored focused specifically on reclamation - not only as the restoring of our lands but the restoring of our selves. The opportunity to reclaim ourselves in awareness of sustainable right action is, in my view, is the single most important variable for creating the future we desire. We are only confined by our own cultural parameters and to create something new, our cultural boundaries need to come down and new paradigms need to come in. My artwork is an invitation to viewers to consider the most profound question, “who am I in the matter of our future?”.
Clayton’s body of artwork includes three images that communicate his interpretation in the most striking ways. Taking upwards of 70 photos’ merged into one single photograph communicates powerfully the inquiry and process of the fundamental answers to a sustainable world – the reclamation of us individually and as a community.
There first of three is all about igniting “awareness” of ourselves. To influence self reclamation we would need to ask two important questions, “Who am I?” and “why am I here?” Through that inquiry we are led to an awareness of the important contribution each and every one of us is.
The second image communicates the realization that when we become self aware, self reflective and we fully understand the impact we have on others and the world, we are knocked off our high horse in a realization that the world as we knew it, is not the truth. Rather self reclamation becomes available when we fully see the landscape of life whereby every word, action and result can create sustainability or disintegrate sustainability – it’s up to us!
The final image is Clayton’s celebration of self reclamation which strikingly communicates the process of ascension into a new thought order. A realization that we are powerful creators of the future, that everything we do makes a difference and that as individuals we can clearly create our path to a peaceful and sustainable world.
MS. TINA OLIVERO
Global Visionary and Publisher
The Oil and Gas Magazine
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