Art & Soul
I alluded to my efforts to live an authentic life in my previous blog on sustainability. To live an authentic life, to strike a balance between expectation and reality, is the most joyful way to live. I find it’s not easy to maintain ‘upright and steady’ however, and I often find myself staggering to the…
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In June 1962at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted a ‘comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.’ It has been 20yrs since the United Nations compiled the 17 sustainable development goals that would seek to…
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In this wee series of posts I hope to explain a little more about the values behind my art, and what influences are behind the art I make… No 1: LOCALITY My definition of locality is: 1 – the fact or condition of having a location in space or time. 2 – a particular place,…
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How much time is spent consciously talking to ourselves? And what kind of talk is it? Note the emphasis on consciously. We talk to ourselves all the time. Most of the talk is unconscious and negative, and most likely if we talked to our friends the way we talk to ourselves, we wouldn’t have any…
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It has been a relatively short time since my graduation. The sweeping changes to ‘the life and times of Lar MacGregor’ that I simply expected, have not manifested with quite the haste anticipated. Like a breath inhaled I await the rush and the success of the outbreath. After graduation, we are dropped haphazardly ashore to…
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When I was small, my Dad and I would walk together. We usually walked in silence and we mapped our progress in distance and time; independent of each other but connected by place and process. I don’t remember when the practice of walking or the smell of leaf litter became central to my art practice.…
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Where do I begin? Our complacency around plastic is a constant source of unrest for my soul. I see a lot of casual disregard for our planet as I walk and whilst I fervently believe that this is often done without malice aforethought, we must somehow find a way to mobilise the masses to act.…
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I have been thinking a lot about my place in this world. This line of thought could be down to my gender, my age, the career change that I am experiencing, or my sense of displacement that comes when a parent is dying. Belonging is a kind of a collective we. It is about how…
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American philosopher Susanne Katherina Langer’s career spanned over much of the twentieth century. Langer was a writer, an educator and she was the first female to be recognised as a philosopher in America. Her book, ‘Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art’ in 1942, explored theories that…
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‘They believed them to be primitive, they deemed them immoral, they thought them barbaric…they called them The Nutters’ A new novel by Geoff King. Artwork, front cover, by Lar MacGregor. You can find out more about Geoff on Facebook on his Geoff King – Writer page, or look at his Woodland Treasures website and…
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