Nora Maccoby
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW we can have clean air, water and soil and continue to live so we can keep making art.
Your works convey a captivating abstract feeling that provide with dynamism the representative feature of your pieces: the way you to capture non-sharpness with an universal kind of language, suspending the viewers between imagination and reality marks out a considerable part of your production. How would you define the relationship between abstraction and representation in your practice? In particular, how does reality and a tendency towards abstraction find their balance in your work?
I see this dialectic having a space of merging. This is the Kasimir Force, the energy between 2 magnets. This is the gnosis that I aspire and work to. We are in a world of form that we think is stable and solid, when it’ s not. We have the power through our thoughts and intentions and hard work to alter this form for the good and the bad. We are creators and I hope to trigger this fact as a service to others and myself.
One of the hallmarks of your work is the capability to create direct involvement with the viewers, who are urged to evolve from a condition of mere spectatorship. So before leaving this conversation we would like to pose a question about the nature of the relationship of your art with your audience. Do you consider the issue of audience reception as being a crucial component of your decision-making process, in terms of what type of language is used in a particular context?
Which audience- the humans or the unseen? There’ s always an observer but I paint mostly to see my thoughts in form and to stabilize my mental and emotional health. There are so many dumb choices we make every day. We’ re lucky when we get to make a right choice.
Art is my life in whatever form it manifests- as a way to make the world more beautiful and with less suffering. This is not always fashionable but to me this is sacred so I don’ t care if the audience has an opinion on that. I have no time for people that are agents of suffering, destruction, horror and evil or the proliferation of bad art. All that said, having an audience that responds, that dialogues, it incredibly lovely and exciting and energizing.
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Nora. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
Besides some on-going film projects, I am working on an installation with some Altered Reality technical artists and sound designers to create a multi-dimensional experience with my paintings. I am finishing final revisions of a science fiction book I’ ve written and illustrated called The Intelligence, which is part of the Surf Seeker Series.
I have a gravitational physicist friend who has just written a paper to support the work they are doing on wormholes and it is triggering a lot of new thoughts in my head about design and form regarding the surfing of time and space.
I will continue to investigate the points of marriage between the lines of science / math and the architecture for the spiritual seeker. Right now I am very involved in Standing Rock, the merging of the green hawks in the military, the veterans who understand true service is to defending the principles of life, not death, and that merging with the indigenous, first nations, and the environmentalists and others is the only way we can self determine our way out of the blind greed that has zombified out leaders into thinking it’ s okay to destroy the literal means of life so a few people can stay rich. The time has come for citizens to protect their basic rights from the necrophilic trickster predators and grow up and choose clean energy. More of this and we will see strong movements allied with the principles of Biophilia. We are living in wild times. There is chaos, but also great opportunity to awaken.
Thank you for the privilege of this conversation, LandEscape.