Tracie Peisley

Peisley’s work is intense, highly charged with an emotional content that relates to the everyday drama of existing.

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May 15

Scared she might tell ...you should be.
' till you do right by me everything you try to do is gonna fail' Ceilie The Colour Purple, Maya Angelou.
#curse

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May 15

I'm engaged with the graphics narrative course I'm following with @thebookofsarahlightman @royaldrawingschool
I'm interesting in 'speaking my truth', nothing held back, the grisley unvarnished realities however it's a a complex undertaking as my sense of a situation is not just what happened but how present I was at the time and how my perspective of myself and events has shifted continually over time. Memory is so fluid and my experience of my self so corrupted by trauma that the emotional landscape is foggy. My figures seem curiously inert, unexpressive, uninhabited, interchangeable. I'm trying to draw the very nature of shifting and going in and out of connection. I want to send a version of me back in time a scout to collect data but each time the task falls into a kind of fizzing crackle of interference.
I cant be sure. I was there, but I wasn't there, stuff happened but is it even relevant any more. What is the truth, I was passive, I participated, I was complicit , I invited it didn't I. What happened on that planet. What happened there?
#whathappened #memory #trauma #dissociation #presence #awareness #dorsalstate

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May 14

Random cake post...well it is a work of art isn't it.
This was an insanely chocolatey over the top gift from my friend @seiphoro22 . Thanks for completely blowing my self restraint to another galaxy.

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May 14

R O A R like a rose
#Rose #mydadsgarden

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May 13

I was a dreamer
#graphicmemoir #drawing #childhood #pretending #championthewonderhorse

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May 12

I do wonder if the punishment fits the crime ...if indeed there was ever a punishable crime at the start.
My therapist says if one isn't supposed to exist then all experience becomes punishable....all experience becomes punishable.

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May 11

Meanwhile the first Roses bloom as the tulips peak and fade and sweet miraculous tiny blooms emerge from succulents.
#inmygarden

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May 11

I wish to be in another world
#watercolour #drawing #otherworld #inanotherworld

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May 10

Drawing in the night time over three hours the wonderful model Steven with @thebookofsarahlightman on the Graphic Narratives Course @royaldrawingschool . Each student chose different poses to inform their projects. Steven was particularly expressive. Once a frizby champion.... now pretty mu h whatever you want him to be ! Amazing evening. 👏
#graphicnarrative #drawingonzoom

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May 9

Might as well give up really ...nothing is more splendid than the real thing.
#lilies #drawingflowers #therealthing #pencilsketch #callalily

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May 9

Good Morning from Whitstable, what a difference the sunshine makes. Hope the rays reach you. X
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Drawing with stitch, free hand letting each stitch be a mark that suggests the next.
I'm holding in mind the project by @the_every_woman_project_2022 and @the_subversive_stitcher making a women out of stitched squares made by women but everytime I get close to any part of my own experience I move away again, the phrases in my head seem so toxic reminding me of terrible experiences.
I am also holding in mind the women I have drawn with a dotted line around them. A permeable amoeba that can slip invisible place to place. Perhaps these say something about my own dissociated state from terror and how little I like to be or can be present.
#dissociation #terror #abuse #violenceagainstwomen #metoo #unconscious
#littleembroidery #nonono

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May 8

I am wondering why my peony produces no bud, so no flower, ((for the second year god -dam-it!!!)) yet an abundance of healthy foliage ? It's a sizeable 2ft wide bush now.
Does it need another peonie like courgette plants ? Are the lilies and peach bad bed fellows.
#comeonthen #drawing

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May 8

Those of you who follow me closely... thank you..I love you...you are like a crucible of cherished liquor from which I sip. X I mean this!
You may recall I put up some paste ups of a women's outline because I wanted to kind of muscle up to subtle misogyny, get it out in the open, see it, interact with it on my terms.
Mostly my figures have been ignored, simply weathered , or disappeared but this one I discover has been embellished I would think by a women. She's in an alley way where youngsters make out, urinate, smoke dope and thieve sometimes. I'm thinking I will re-draw her with the additions made by the anonymous artist and re paste her. Public engagement.
Brene Brown says, ' you can't hate close up'. Well...I think it is possible to hate close up but connection makes it harder. Connection brings light to the darkness and causes at the very least a moment to be curious.
#pasteup #comeonthen #publicengagement

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May 7

A S I I M A G I N E D
#dissociation #presence #sweetecstasy #thebodyiamin #attunement #surrender #somaticexperiencing #seen

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May 6

Dining out on hands and feet and flowers and toe curling

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May 5

Gorgeous first proof of first print of my drawing with Suki @theprintblock giving the piece the foamy luscious energetic whhhoooossshhhhh I wanted.
This has three layers of print so far to build depth.

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May 5

Meanwhile the weather is glorious in Whitstable today and the flowers in my garden are too beautiful to paint. @jenialberta I planted these iris in your honour last year ? And they are stunning.

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May 5

Usually at night when so full of a sense of someone that I find myself raising my arms and stretching out my fingers as if the finger tips of another will meet the very tips of mine, holding that moment so fully in every cell of my being, holding my breath, so I can will them to be present.
#willing #grief #glasshouse #touch #absence #presence #love #onemoreday

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May 4

S P U M E
Very excited to be working with Suki @theprintblock to take this drawing to a silk screen print.
This is the first experimental drawing on truegrain, which will give the first layer.

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May 4

M I R R O R I N G

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