LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Nora Maccoby
Artist Nora Maccoby ' s work establishes a channel of communication between abstraction and reality: her practice marries esoteric knowledge and ancient text with secret black operations projects and advanced energy technologies of frequency, resonance and the zero point. In her Time Travel series, that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages, she captured non sharpness with an universal language, to trigger the viewers ' perceptual parameters. One of the most impressive aspects of Maccoby ' s practice is its successful attempt to merge the abstract and figurative, questioning contemporary visualization practice and drawing the viewers into an immersive, intense visual aesthetics to addresses the subjective experience of forms made by natural forces: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Nora and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training in theater directing and playwriting at Oberlin College. How did this experience influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
My cultural substratum is ethnically and religiously hybrid. My father is the son of a Russian / Pole / Ukranian socialist, Grandma Dora( the product of a Jewish mother who was raped by a Cossack), and a London-born rabbi, Max
Maccoby, who I never met. His best friend, and debating partner, in college was Mark Rothko. He and my grandparents all moved to the Village in the 1920s from Oregon. They were in the spiritual business, Rothko did it through the church of painting, my Grandfather through the structure of religion, my grandmother through politics.
My mother’ s side, her father, Francis Weille, was from a French, Austrian immigrant family who went to the South in the 1800s. They were Confederate plantation owners. Francis crossed the line north and became a Professor at Harvard Medical School and ran a laboratory that invented the cocular implant so the deaf can hear. He married my grandmother, Eleanor Walker, a mystic theosophist Episcopalean whose family came to America in 1715 mostly from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales and served in the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War on the side of the Union, and WWI.
So I come from 2 generations of people coming together from opposite sides of pretty intense bloody traumatic conflict. There is a feeling of being connected to many tribes, and also of not belonging to any, of a primal rejection, not being part of any culture or religion or ethnicity. My cultural identification was therefore with my immediate family of my parents and siblings, and within that there were different tribes and alliegances to different siblings, and then the