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The Meaning of Flowers

January 13, 2014 by susanmoirmackay

I’ve been fighting shadows, in this case the shadow has a name, ‘Insurance Company’. A little hidden clause in my contract means that although they will pay for water damage, they will not pay for wood that has rotted due to water damage. Apparently, I was supposed to telepathically know that there was water leaking behind the pristine white tiles, before it became ‘rotted wood’.  To placate me, the smooth-voiced man on the phone from the insurance company, apologises for […]

Categories: Art, Conceptual Art, contemporary art • Tags: Anya Gallacia, art, dying flowers, Flowers, Marcel Duchamp, van gogh

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Selfie Society!

November 21, 2013 by susanmoirmackay

My children are posing in front of me, lips flared, bottoms sticking out – with dramatic obscenity and two fingers held up in front of their faces. This, they tell me, is the new style for ‘selfies’. Selfies, in case you somehow missed it, is a self portrait (photograph) posted online. And the point of the selfies, to my cynically bemused eye, is to remind the world, if not yourself, how fabulous you look! Or an opportunity for self flagellation […]

Categories: Art, Conceptual Art, contemporary art, nudes, photography, Portraits, Self Portrait, Selfie, society • Tags: art, conceptual art, frida khalo, lucien freud, portrait, sarah lucas, self portrait, selfies, van gogh

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