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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The Body I am in

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Oct 21

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I have TERRIBLE feet.
#inkdrawing #morethanone #ofthebody #thebodyiamin #feet

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Oct 21

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I start some drawings of my left foot. I'm reminded of an evening with friends where I offered foot massage and we pooled our knowledge of reflexology. Was this grainy area the ovaries, was this the brain. We drank, I massaged. The next day I looked up a chart and our random hypothesis were completely inaccurate! Still, what possible harm could be done right!

#drawing #myleftfoot #whatcouldpossiblygowrong #ofthebody #cure #thebodyiamin #inkdrawing

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Oct 20

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TW death & loss

Stoneware porcelain

This is the problem.here...If we try to fix it by attaching to the bone she is so brittle it will break away, if we attempt to repair it will rupture else where, she may have a week, a month at most, if we take her into theatre she will likely have kidney failure...
I'm afraid there is nothing we can do.
Nothing we can do
Nothing we can do
We can make her comfortable and you can have these last hours with her before she passes.
We can't tell you how long you have, the rupture at the back is slower.
Any questions?

Why the precise accurate summary of parts now? Is it easy to write the plenary when the lesson is done.

#grief #drawing #drawingouttime #loss #nothingwecando #brittle #griefdrawing

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Oct 19

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I've been wearing her knickers.
Underglaze on stoneware porcelain.
#grief

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Oct 19

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Oct 19

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I was thinking clouds when I painted her but now she's fired I'm reminded of the deep emerald pools of Samothraki, a beautiful Greek island near to Alexandropolis with phenomenal nature, young beautiful Greeks camp, hyke and lounge around the pools naked with irridescent butterfly's their long sweeping tails skirting the surface. Tangles of bleached trees and moss covered rocks. It's gorgeous there. Samothraki sculpture from 'The Sanctuary of the Gods.'
#peisleyceramics #samothraki #samothrakiisland #sanctuary #contemporaryceramics

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Oct 18

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The Body I Am in...challenged to find a drawing that meets this descriptor.
I want to make my own drawing.
I might feel like a child, but I am a women, large, tall, solid,full.
I could have made a reflected study in the mirror but I want to believe I can convey more through a felt sense. Everything is an approximation of random truths and beliefs.
She, I, her, looks more naked without my.usual decorations.
I want to add an amour of swirls and patterns, distractions of flora and fauna but I'm aiming for radical honesty ! without too much gratuitous distraction.
She can be drawn any how, but has to convey the belief that she could turn around and walk off the paper.
#drawing #selfportrait #thebodyiamin #charcoaldrawing

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Oct 18

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At night I think of my mother, random memories from recent and far past roll through my head. Sometimes if I sleep I dream of her.
At 4am I conceded to get up and draw her. This wasn't the drawing in my head. Maybe I couldn't draw that drawing as I'm not that kind of drawer. I was remembering carefully removing her ingrown toe nail a couple of months ago, teezing out painful splinters leaving a raw pink soreness and massaging her feet. How empty her feet felt as if there was no resistance to my pressing thumbs, as if I would press straight through. I laughed after, ' there you are, I said, ' you're cured' .
At the height of my father's workaholic craziness they bought a puppy and called her Echo. I thought, that's all she hears in her house alone. She told me she was so lonely she sometimes listened to her voice recording on the answer machine. ' Hi this is Andrea, please leave us a message ....'
Then my dad had a brain haemorrhage, brain surgery, rehab then pancreatic cancer... after that she was never physically alone again.
#drawing #memory #mum

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Oct 17

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Oct 15

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Oct 15

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$I'm sure if I share just a fraction of what I make with my visitors this weekend it will be enough. If I place one piece in this blank space it will send out its presence and begin communicating with everything in the studio. Yesterday I heard Sharon Saltzberg talking about how we touch the edge of space all the time and Nancy Horne talking about the space between our finger tips and the horse, using ' light touch' to take the charge of stress from a horses body with the lightest of approaches between oneself and another. The second picture is my ceramic studio where I have been working. Literally I am forced to the edge of my bench there with the detritus of making. I am staring at the blank wall and want to fill it aka ' a beautiful mind'. #openstudio #comeonin #creativeprocess #space #ekoh #lessismore #stuffedtothemax$

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Oct 13

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