Bio
Jordan Clary grew up in rural Ohio. She left home at 17 in a VW mini bus and has spent the past 35 years trying to find a home. She has lived in large cities and small towns, all over California and in Mexico and China. She has burned bridges and forged relationships, and finally concluded that home is not a geography as much as it is a state of mind.
Today she lives on the high desert in the Sierra foothills of northeastern California where the land is dry and the colors the muted earth shades of beige, khaki and rust. Her studio, a small apartment over a double-car garage, looks across the valley to Diamond Mountain. The one constant in her life has been a burning restlessness that’s driven me from place to place, to other homes, other countries, new cultures.
She was married for twenty years and remains close friends with her former husband. Her two sons and three step-children are spread from the east coast to the west.