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

mystery – portraits of life and death

January 10, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

“Living whilst dying – Dying whilst living” is the name of one of the pieces I did for Paradox.  It fascinated me to think how we are perpetually in those two states, yet more pointed when faced with a terminal illness. Yesterday I went to Leo’s funeral.  A shocking death. As unexpected as death can be.  An elegant death, if death can ever be such a thing? The church service was full of catholic warnings of sins and hell.   I […]

Categories: church, death, god, life, musings, Portraits, soul, spirituality • Tags: church, death, funeral, God, life, Mystery, portrait, soul, spirituality

2 week experiments:

November 1, 2010 by susanmoirmackay

So,  O and I had been debating so fiercely that I requested a break from the debate.  For 2 weeks we stopped debating.   It was less colourful but pale blue calm was a pleasant change.   Now that 2 weeks is over Ive noticed that we are more respectful in our debates…..dont get me wrong we are still passionate, but it doesnt feel so heavy. I like the idea of 2 week experiments.  I wanted to do an experiment regarding the portraits, […]

Categories: Art, life • Tags: art, debates, life