Art & Soul
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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Wayfaring Chair: walking, nature and well-being. Well-being; an illusive, mutable and desirable objective for each day. Mind mapping: a new visual for using contours and labels to investigate routes for my new work. Stillness. The point at which external distraction and noise, filters out of the psyche. Why is it so difficult to maintain…
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February 2019 begins with an exciting adventure into an artist residency at Caladar Arts, Cawdor, Scotland; two blissful months of immersion into creativity and contemporary art in the Scottish Highlands. Culminating in an exhibition, I will be walking, talking and sharing my way through with ‘Way Finder’ walking workshops (details to follow) and using this…
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Happy New Year one and all. Hope for a happy 2019 is to be found in the form of a special issue of ‘Interartive‘ an online magazine. My art project Wayfaring, was published in December 2018. This pursuit of mine to create art around walking, is based on a firm belief that I am a better version…
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