I always thought my middle name was spelled “Claire”, until the bubble was popped around 18 years old. At 28 years old, I have two last names. Erica Clare is who I am, for now, until my identity is inevitably revolutionised into something new. I imagine this website is about exactly this - expressing my ‘self’ in ever-purer ways.

I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of creation, identity, transformation, and change, seeking to capture that in my life through photography and documentation of all types and forms of expression, what I guess I can humbly term “mon oeuvre” or my body of work (writing, art, videos, music, magic, spirituality, various blogs, relationships and sex).

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International Experience

Traveling extensively through Europe for my early musical years and then academic and professional track in International Relations and with the United Nations, I know what it feels like to be uprooted and in search for community, attachment and belonging in relationships to place and people. I have also been to countries such as Sudan, Vietnam and Guatemala, for professional and service oriented work which gives me a unique personal experience and insight into the mindsets around the global and political context from my viewpoint as an American as well as global citizen. My experience in my twenties included several international moves and significant relationships which led me to see the domestic context in a new light — one that can now appreciate the unique historical trajectory of the ‘American’ people and the weight that nationality bring in a modernized and (to an extent) boundary-less world.

Trained Musician

For over a decade, from the age of nine to my mid-twenties I trained extensively as a flutist. Performing globally with orchestra and chamber groups, and winning international master classes and competitions from a young age, my work ethic and discipline was largely developed through rigorous practice and study with internationally accomplished teachers/musicians. These formative years studying musicianship and music history led me to deeply appreciate the border-less and unifying nature of music, artistry, performance and the language of creativity and culture. This deeply engrained creative faculty in me is what helps me to tap into the non-linear and ‘Right brain' (intuitive) function.