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Portrait: Friends with perspective

July 15, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

I have been struggling again with the concept of finding a commonality for all the portraits, feeling often overwhelmed by perceived cruelty.  Looking at the world after my post about fear and being given examples to disprove my theory.  Violence seeming to be a staple of being human. And I have been thinking about friends and friendships. A friend laments that we are all too busy to spend time like we did when we are school.  THis fast paced efficient […]

Categories: compassion, friends, friendship, human nature, life, musings, perspective, Portraits • Tags: Bahamas, compassion, friendship, humanity, life, portrait, questions

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fear as a taught response – an inability to live the “no”?

July 13, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

ok this really does not have anything to do with art perse, other than a perspective, an understanding about reality…. I love walking the beach on my own in the dark at night.  It is one of my favourite things to do.  Many people warn me though, and are afraid for me.  For some reason I have little fear.  I cant genuinely say NO fear, as sometimes prickles of fear crawl over and under my skin.  But for the most part my […]

Categories: fear, life, musings, rape, saying no, society, spirituality, violence • Tags: fear, saying no, saying yes, violence, women

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life keeps getting in the way of observing life

July 12, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

I have moved my work to the Atelier at L’utopia. Its exciting and scary to move…..The biggest challenge i have is getting out there, i am used to working on a whim at home. Life is hot and busy.  The kids are in Canada…..but as usual dont feel like i have had enough time to relax into the break in routine. Had a fascinating conversation with T. G. on FB tonight.  She is a recently graduated artist working in new […]

Categories: Art, Conceptual Art, musings, Portraits

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there is no sin

July 4, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

So after all my thoughts trying to make sense of the energy of censorship and the reality of sex/ making love.  I cant help but think about morals. I recently re watched the fascinating TED talk by Patricia Burchatt about dark energy and dark matter.  It intrigues me to imagine that (although it is all currently theoretical), the basic premise based on the evidence that they have, is that beyond the small percentage of matter, earth, us, trees, planets, stars etc, the […]

Categories: Art, Conceptual Art, contemporary art, human nature, life, musings • Tags: art, conceptual art, dark energy, dark matter, morals, sin, sinlessness, spirituality, TED talks

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