shona macdonald

Excerpt from Chicago Tribune, December 16 2005, interview by Jenn Goddu

"The drawings and gouaches on exhibit suggest maps and landscape drawings of imaginary places. Even though the specific locations in the image have been stripped away, Macdonald says she has a clear idea in her mind of the geographical place she is meditating on.

Show curator, Sophia Zutautus, describes Macdonald’s work as “almost like journaling” in its creation of a personal landscape of maps, memories and time. Yet still allowing the viewer to reflect on their own sense of place. “It looks familiar but then the closer you look at it, the more you pay attention to details, you find a different perspective, different symbols and you discover its almost like traveling to those landscapes."