Check out Mackenzie’s work at www.mementomack.com JANUARY 2015 | BOROMAG.COM | 37 On writing... I had a journal in my hand since I could write. My mom always loaded me up with art and paint and music. Art has always been everything. Since the beginning there was nothing that could do it like art. My passion… is in creating. I went to FIT for photography but minored in creative writing. Art school totally stifled me artistically when it should be doing the opposite. Teaching you to embrace your art and channel it correctly. It’s been so freeing to get out of that and put myself out there the way that I want to. My day job... I work in video now. I work for Fox News, Al Jazeera, Arise, and SNY. I do video, color correcting, robotic cameras, engineering, and all sorts of things. On spoken word... I have always been a writer, and I only just brought it to the stage a couple of years ago when Waltz Astoria was open. Speaking with your fullest voice to a quiet room about your deepest feelings is the most frightening thing. I found it enlightening and enriching, and it opened me up as a writer too. On photography... I started shooting when I was 13. I lived in upstate New York at the time and I would run around and take pictures. I loved editing, and it just took off from there. It just became my passion. I do a lot of conceptual portraiture. I fell for true moments. Something sincere, something interesting. Instagram has gone the route with marketing myself. It’s my way of reaching out to the world. I love the simplicity of the app. Influences... I don’t ever really look at other people’s work that much. I am inspired more by everything around me. Light and color are just all that matter to me. I just draw on my mood. Everything comes back to emotion for me. Generally is based on a vibe. Ideally I would... read palms all day. I attend a School of Oracles with Ellen Goldberg. I go once a week with a small group of strange women. It’s fun—I am the youngest there. It’s been incredible— it’s been self-enlightening. In a few years I see myself... still in Astoria—I can’t see myself leaving yet. I think I’ll be a lot better at my craft. I think I’ll be talented. I think I will focus my art. So hopefully I can learn to grow up a bit and really learn to get down to it. a palm Photographs by Mackenzie Greer
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