MALCOLM MAC VICAR BONNEY III
VAPOROUS PAINTINGS:
THE FRENZY OF THE VISIBLE
1. First, I have found that getting too close to a subject is a pretty sure way of missing it’s meaning. A place transforms a memory.
A memory reorders the world . I use microcrystalline wax and sack cloth on wood to hold to my perceptions.

2. Societal expectations are charged by a tranference of sublimation. I look for the root as a level of intention. I purify, maybe depersonallized sybolism with abstract symbol systems. I refuse to stick to one medium or even one discipline. A myriad of opportunities to create and push boundries. Horses, the promise of freedom, train tracks the promise of escape, and disengaged wheels symbolize inablity to move forward.

3. The works main themes are contrast or dualism. The perceptual shifts of reality convey the absence as well as presence in a narritive thread. All forms reveal a polarity. Bridge object and sign.

4. Form was a reaction in the material point of departure. Still points of a turning world. (T.S. Elliot) witness to collective meaning, the surface appearance of things to a second reality of human depths. Symbols are used like a door, a succinct emblem of displacement, from delicate to abrupt tearing and puntures. The solitary process of recording scratched out like the act of the burning of a disk.
Materials include horsehair, leather, cloth, mirrors electric lights etc. Canneled through found object assemblages embrased the use of vintage material with an autobiographic twist. Honeycomb was shaped onto material.

5. I use narrative drawings at the edge of a particular writer’s concept for one year in an interactive flux of perception with a distillation of time. Projects, combine cybernetic and philosophic models. Information-theory systems-analysis and semiotic with an ideology of community. Works are reaction to historical determinism.

6. HESTEKETUR, exposing artwork to elements such as sun, rain, snow and occasional bird droppings, the kill or cure treatment. This creates a texture of memory, The surface treatment, resolution has a parallel in observation. The veiling effect of wax, added organic tone to the work likeclouds, powder or dust. The mirrors are symbolic of the elusive and active process of perception.

G.B. Shaw “Institutions collapse from lack of funding, they do not die from lack of meaning, we do.

William Wallace “ It is our wits that make us men.”