Why would you Payday loans UK There are two forms of this advance
« we work in the dark
was watching… will be watching… »

moving forward


Mab wears a black and white dress given to her by ColeMarie Soleil

Hello Gallery Aferro and Jay,

When I woke up today (I sleep at odd hours, similar to a baby’s schedule) I had communications that my latest blog post was taken off the Newark is Watching blog.

I can see that for myself now, and also that I have been denied access to the blog.

I realize it’s possible you may not understand this but I was involuntarily put in the very tough position of buffer between Aferro and Second Life® virtual artists whose work I care about and believe in, all of whom have been trying to do the best they could on a completely voluntary basis, blindfolded and hamstrung by uncertainty.

For every question you were asked and didn’t answer, I probably had a dozen related come to me, which I answered as well as I could and as promptly as I could, even if it was just to say ‘I don’t know, let’s try to find out’ or ‘we must keep an open mind’.

I have never attempted to influence anyone’s opinion on anything that has happened except to urge for understanding, patience and tolerance on your behalf.

The art in Second Life®, as in all participatory conceptual art, depends on engagement, curiosity, and timing – you get from it what you bring to it.

One of the things I have said to my son about being an artist is: Art must hit on the beat or have a good reason not to, otherwise it’s not art- it’s just dust in the wind.

Thank you for your time and as I said in my now-removed blog post, I wish you well.

Mab MacMoragh

Posted by Mab MacMoragh on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at 12:29 am.

6 Responses to “moving forward”

I just talked to Emma from Aferro and it was totally an acident. She never meant to delete anything and she feels terrible about it. I’m going to see if there is some kind if way to restore it from a backup..

Left by jvanb on July 22nd, 2010

Jay,
I’m not trying to cause trouble but how is that possible? I’m an admin on this blog which uses the same WordPress setup as the NiW blog, it would take numerous button presses and navigation of sub-menus to do what Emma claims was an accident.

Left by Arahan Claveau on July 22nd, 2010

Its true, it does take several button presses – maybe only two– its easy enough to do… anyway it doesn’t matter because I’m 100% sure it was an accident- because she really loved what Mab had said and appreciated all the work mab had put in there.

Left by jvanb on July 22nd, 2010

if my ten year old daughter hits my six year old son, he cries, and then she claims that it was an accident, but she didn’t say sorry in the first place, what happened most likely? right, she hit him on purpose.

Left by Selavy Oh on July 22nd, 2010

See, the problem is that there’s been so much ill will between Aferro and the SL artists that while *you* might be 100% sure it was an accident, I can’t get behind that idea any more than I could the idea that the moon landing was staged. (sorry, had to.)

Left by Amy Freelunch on July 22nd, 2010

I prefer to believe it was a mistake in judgment compounded on many levels and by many people (myself included).

We are all human and no one is infallible. I’m not comfortable assigning blame.

In the great film Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa explores how the truth of an experience is subjective.

Jay, thank you so much but it’s not necessary to restore my posts to the Newark is Watching blog- they were all crossposted and still exist on this one, with some also crossposted to the Soup blog.

Left by Mab MacMoragh on July 22nd, 2010

Something to say?

You must be logged in to post a comment.