Claire Harvey Into the Ordinary

"Claire Harvey transforms ordinary experience and commonplace materials into fascinating microcosms. With deft hand for the miniature and through keen observation, she pains individual small-scale portraits on Scotch tape, glass slides, and Post-it notes that add up to roving constellations of people. These portable micro-portraits constitute a travelogue of cities as much as they search for connection with the anonymous figure in the crowd. Harvey invites us to embrace the ephermeral nature of the worlds and artistic gestures she makes, readjusting the measure of dialy life and our vision"--Page 4 of cover.