Nora Maccoby
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
siblings vs my parents, led by my eldest sister, or my cultural substratum with my younger brother, or my second sister, or various combinations. Then there was my cultural substratum of me, and the thoughts that were mine alone. It’ s endless, this cultural identity thing, and one of the reasons I do what I do so I can escape it. When I do art I am in a space where none of this applies and it is the freedom of the celestial ocean, of free time and space, unhindered by human cultural warfare. And this is the spot from which I first began my time travel research. My overriding questions have always been: what is going on? what happened to get us here? who is in control? how does it work?
My mystical grandmother Eleanor was the one who really initiated me into the truth that we are in some strange game and there are secret tools with which to free yourself. She was one of the most free thinking people I ever met. A composer and a mystic, mountaineer, who was head of the Theosophical Society of Boston for a bit. She told me early on to know that what I“ saw” was valid. That the“ unseen”, the invisible worlds, were not necessarily invisible. That we could“ see” them in our mind’ s eye. That this eye was real and the doorway into freedom, and that our ability to be free lay in that acceptance. She had a twin sister, Doris, who was a portraitist, landscape artist, mountaineer and environmentalist and advocate of hydrogen energy in the 70s. Their mother was a water colorist who supposedly never recovered from their birth because they were so wild and uncontrollable. They died to this world, both at the age of 99, were forces of nature and believed in existence OUT of Time.
I have spent a lot of time researching my family history because ancestor memories literally reside in our DNA. Access to the historical logs reside within us, we are made of them! I think it’ s helpful to know your biological lineage to better understand one’ s mechanical biological or psychic influences / problems / blessings and that we have the opportunity in this lifetime to transcend the mechanical programming and birth the butterfly and take artistic ownership of your own existence. I think this is the essential point of all theological texts that are any good. This is also at the core of Gurdjieff,