Joyclam

This Leaf

This Leaf | A Poem by Joyclam

Shangri-La (RE-MISSION Collection)

A floral arrangement from recycled materials and lost inheritance

Happy Tickaversary - Year 7: The Monastery of St. Borrelia and The Existential Crisis

Can I respect everything in its season – winter, exhaustion, rest, grief? Can I honor Sabbath, transition, liminal spaces, unknowing?

Hollowgraphy

Post-Coronial dystopia

Én Hazám (My Homeland)

2022 | digital media

Prisoners of War

In the war at home, I honor the sanctity of grief. My grief. Their grief. Your grief. Our grief.

Antidepressants, Withdrawal, and Other Scary Stories

Tricks and Treats for Getting Off Antidepressants (not-medical advice from not-a-doctor)

Happy Tickaversary - Year 6: Re-Mission

What remission from chronic Lyme is NOT is a sudden restoration to 100% health. A new life is here. And there’s no road map. Now what?

Remember Me

If I am to remember God's love in my darkest times, I would ask Him to remember what it's like to grieve so hard you drown the whole world.

Happy Tickaversary - Year 5: The Weight and the Waste

I’m in a new territory – the “Remission Purgatory” as I call it. A space in between sick and healthy.

Child Soldier: Where Did I Get this Gun?

They didn't wound me. They simply exposed and drew attention to it. They pulled the trigger, but the gun was already there.

The First-and-a-Half Commandment

Hating yourself will literally destroy your brain and body with illness. Hating your self will destroy your view of God and love for others

When God Shows Up

If I want to heal, know God, and be restored sevenfold, what should I expect but a whirlwind? When God sends a plague, it sets people free.

I in Christmas

Keeping the Christ in Christmas is not nearly so important... as keeping the I in Christ.

It's Not A Wall, It's A Door

2020 | assemblage | 75" x 35" x 9"

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