Claire He

Artist Bio

Claire He is a screenwriter majoring in Dramatic Literature for her bachelor’s degree and Cultural Studies for her master’s degree. A sentimental and introverted girl, she has always felt that she is meant to live a life untouched by the secular world.

Seeing Elsewhere: Stories of Leaving Between Generations

Artwork Description

For many literary souls, real life felt like something far away from them, lying in an abstract mind, a distant cultural context, another world. Claire is an over-thinking, pessimistic girl, always longing to leave her current environment, while Christina, who lives elsewhere, could not choose whether to leave or not but stays optimistic all the time. Comparing Christina’s story with her own story, Claire became enlightened that there was not an ideal ‘elsewhere’ in the world. What made her feel depressed was her cowardice, which led to her avoidance from her current surroundings and her paranoid pursuit of the sublime. The real happiness could only be acquired from and enjoyed in our real life.