Boundaries: The Experience- Art and Phenomenological!

June 16, 2012 by susanmoirmackay

Last night I had disturbed dreams, flashes of colour, an intense vision of looking through back lit trees in a dark night – a vivid green, lime and yellow flashing across my eyes.  There was some feeling of connecting the pieces we had made earlier at the hall in L’Utopia with this ephemeral, translucent colour. And so another Wednesday night spent restlessly, resulting in getting up and reading till 5.30am in an attempt to draw myself back into sleep. Was I over […]

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Boundaries- An Art and Phenomenological Experience

June 7, 2012 by susanmoirmackay

Tonight I introduced to a few brave souls, my concept for an art and phenomenological experience.  8 of us altogether, a healthy mix of spiritual and art minded characters.   I am not leading this event, merely offering my fellow travelers a formula in which to follow.  I am not leading because I have been curious to do this exercise for a while…and so I wanted to share the idea with my friends and see what happens…. Also, L’Utopia is […]

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3 men.

August 7, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

O and I went to an event the other weekend.  it was ‘alternative’.  I phrase it carefully, this is a strange country. The people attending were not the ‘normal’ crowd.  Everyone fascinated me.  I wanted to paint them all, I could see so much on them, or at least I imagined I did.  Its hard to know if I was projecting.  But certainly I was inspired to portray what I imagined.  So I asked the two people we knew at the […]

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good things happening

January 27, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

I demanded time in the studio today, even though it was hard to push the faces away from me.  The kids sweetness calling to me all day. But for my sanity, even though I was tired from such a full morning, I demanded myself to go in there. I was given a secret to follow after one of my long meditations. Meditations where I am searching to shift the heaviness that seems to have stuck to me.  The secret  was the answer […]

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nude

January 2, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

I have exposed myself for my art, on more than one occasion.  I think the most intimate exposing was taking a photocopy of my vagina and using it in the installation at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas.  It amused me that the pornography was censored by the gallery, but the photocopy was not.  I think not many people realised what the picture was!   Of course Crimson Room, was all nude and the photographs were unflinching. (when I […]

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finding reality in the super reality

January 2, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

Its been slow, what with the kids being off for christmas, not so much free time. I have done a few more sketch that have left me frustrated.  Not only frustrated by my slow skill, which I know will only improve with doing an abundance of drawings, but frustrated by my preoccupation with my ‘slow skill’. I am frustrated by needing to draw realistically.  A need set by me, but one that seems to be inhibiting my creativity.   Im used […]

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portrait update

November 8, 2010 by susanmoirmackay

Susan Sweeting popped over today.  Since last year she has been working on creating a film about my work.  However busy schedules have slowed the process down.  At the start of this new project, she would like to start a documentary. I am excited, as obviously I love the process, I love the work.  But today on discussing the practicalities, I felt my resistance to this being in any way a portrait of me.  Which of course is fascinating considering […]

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pretty little things

September 21, 2010 by susanmoirmackay

There are days when I forget who I am – lost to myself and wondering. I am in the empty space between art projects and I feel that delicious pull inside me to create.  I like this time.  Ideas gently surface like a siren call.  A whim – to be birthed into the solidity of a line. And I wonder if that’s why I feel so vacant, because I am needing a tangible act of creation to pull me back into this reality. […]

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