"everybody loved my scribbles" artsist=genius "an artist is a hard thing to call oneself"
These phrases really stuck with me. Mary seems to see more in things to me than most people. Almost like she gets a view into the invisible world or the collective unconscious. Her work is very personal and politcal in a unique and sensitive way.This art appears to challenge societies and her own views of femine archetypes. The way this appears is not all together comfortable to the viewer perhaps this is due to Mary's "haunted childhood". I must say I can relate to this spending some time on the dark side myself but i believe most of the world finds glimpses into this world unsettling. Sounds like what art should be to me- personal- social- disturbing and aesthetic. My studies into shamanistic practices and religion make me postulate that in some way Mary is performing some sort of ritual service to the spirit world. As a "modern" society our connection to the spirit world has been drastically severed by fear, superstition , cultural taboos and serious lack of understanding. Many aboriginal peoples believe that the physical world is created from the invisble or dream world. The Dhammapada says " We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world."
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