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My Five Step Mantra,"ClarityIsJustSoHip!"

"Clarity, Awareness, Presence, Acceptance & Gratitude" used to clear your emotional palette when in the midst of chaos

Claire devised "ClarityIsJustSoHip!" in late 2015 when she learned she has MGUS, a marker for multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer affecting bone marrow. The diagnosis created such chaos in Claire's life that she needed additional support to stabilize a life spiraling out of control. She used each step, along with her Buddhist practice, in a wash, rinse, repeat cycle until her emotional state settled. Using this system daily helped pull Claire back from the edge of despair during those early years.

When Claire was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in 2023, she utilized her Buddhist chant and “ClarityIsJustSoHip!” to bring her back from the brink after being told she had a 50% chance of paralysis. However, soon after surgery, her legs moved. A doctor told her she was in the one percent to walk again after such surgery.

Now recently diagnosed with smoldering multiple myeloma, "ClarityIsJustSoHip!" is a significant part of Claire's emotional wellness toolkit as she reflects on her new life as an immunocompromised disabled person.

A photo of Claire wearing a black outfit and black and white patterned mask with large red glasses. She is sitting on multicolored fabrics in the lotus position, while holding a pink fake lotus in her hand. Her eyes are closed. Behind her are more fabrics and a single fake sunflower to her right. A black cane is in her lap.

CLARITY

One has to awaken and become clear to get the most out of life. Once clarity is established, awareness rises.

What is the "ClarityIsJustSoHip!" Art Project?

Now in recovery, ClarityIsJustSoHip! allows Claire to share a little bit of the light she has in her life after much introspection and self-analysis. She hopes to inspire and motivate those who need a daily boost of positivity through her words and unique digital paintings made from manipulating and editing her iPhone photography through various iPhone apps. Claire calls these paintings “Sun Angels” because they're images inspired by the New Hampshire sun resulting from a spiritual healing experience she had during the early days of her health crisis.

View her virtual gallery below:

**Stay Safe And Protected In Your Light**

Instagram: @ClarityIsJustSoHip

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Tenacity

Digital Painting: This piece explodes with colors of the rainbow, blues, golds, rusts, fuschias, light greens and blues in dappling mottled textures from side to side and top to bottom.

Strive For A Better You

Digital Painting: Plain beige background has a design of curvy and wavy lines colored in dark brown, blue, gold and red. Emblazoned across the middle are the words “Strive for a Better you.”

Love And Peace

Digital Painting: colors of red, gold, blue, pink swirl and balloon up from a plain, light blue base. Down the middle the words, “Everyday let love, light and peace elevate your intentions,” prominently stand out on the page.

See The World As It Is

Digital Painting: Colors of red, gold, blue, pink swirl and balloon up from a plain, light blue base. Down the middle the words, “Everyday let love, light and peace elevate your intentions,” prominently stand out on the page.

ClarityIsJustSoHip! Logo

A round logo with a black outline. The black outline is open at the bottom and each side of the outline ends with a black nub. Five blue and yellow prayer beads fill the open part of the black outline. Inside the nubs are tiny yin-yang symbols. Inside is a light pastel green that starts at the top that fades into light pastel blue at the bottom of the circle. A bright pink lotus sits in the middle, atop of a bright green lilly pad. Above and behind the lotus is a circle of blue, which fades into lighter blues. Superimposed over that is a gold circle which fades into a light yellow. Above the overall low is text stating “ClarityIsJustSoHip.”

Clarion's Call

Digital Painting: A flat orange background is accented by psychedelic shapes and swaths and swirls of colorful yellows, blues, reds, rusts. Sitting in the middle is a diamond shape colored in light and dark blue. In the middle of this shape sits a circle with a tiny square of mottled dark blues and reds. This is then surround by tiny circles varying in light blue, light yellow and dark blue.

Abstract in Blue

Digital Painting: Light and dark blues swirl upward and back and forth opening up in the middle to a wide, white circle with two wavy, black lines at its center.

Sunflower Symphony

Digital Painting: Mustard mushroom shape explodes upwards surrounded by splotches of black swirls. A swath of dark and light greens is enclosed in the mustard, mushroom cloud.

Swing From The Stars

Digital Painting: A crescent moon of off-white, beige and off-gray sits in the center of the piece. Sitting not quite in the center of the crescent moon is a small full moon. Inside the moons are grayish-blue and black swirls. In the background are marbled deep blue, dark purple and red swirls. Some of these swirls have a glitchy-looking effect.

Claire's Art Project - ClarityIsJustSoHip!: Pro Gallery

"Curls and Curves"a digital painting. Three voluptuous Black women with thick natural hair.

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