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