It sat somewhere between a gathering and a return. People didn’t just move through, they stayed, going back and forth between the large family image and the smaller black and white photographs that ask you to slow down. The installation felt lived in, like a space you recognize without needing to explain it. Conversations carried, people lingered, and the work brought out tears of happiness, the kind that sits close to nostalgia.
Framed within Happiness Pursued. Paradise Lost., Lucas examines migration and home, not as something fixed in the past, but as something still in motion. The room answers that quietly, through presence, through repetition, through the way people return to a space and make it hold.
Happiness Pursued. Paradise Lost.
April 4-July 12, 2026
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art
200 W. First St., Claremont, CA
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Thursday, 12-4 pm
Friday, 12–7 pm
Saturday, 12–4 pm
Sunday, 10 am– 4 pm
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