The #ART? series, are mixed media works composed of cropped selections of images using the hashtag (#)art, collected from Instagram. These works give a glimpse into what the everyday person considers art.

The series aims to explore the definition of the term art, and how it’s definition changes from person to person. Who has authority over what is classified art? Claase uses social media as means to look at how public perceptions about art are portrayed, outside of the institutional context. By using screenshots to capture images (that have nothing in common except the fact that they have both been deemed #art), she uses cropping as a tool, maintaining the white lines that Instagram uses to separate images displayed in the same # category. Claase creates new individual works, that stem from the work of other. But is it art?