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Blue-Sky Thinkers
THE BLUE ISSUE
VISI 56 - SEPTERMBER 2011
Luxuriate in the talents of these open-minded, innovative individuals who help make up the creative fabric of our nation. For them, endless horizons are a state of mind.
Marcii Goose’s abounding creativity is an enigma, often even to herself. But since ditching a career in advertising, where she felt “abused”, Marcii has been able to fondly canoodle her artistry through “simple decisions and super strong intuition”.
As a freelancer on a smorgasbord of delightful projects, Marcii Goose works as an artist, an interior designer, an art director, a conceptual powerhouse, a graphic designer, videographer and curator. In a word, she’s a creative. One who works organically on projects that speak to her, and with people with whom she feels a connection.
She admits that her decision to swop her nine-to-five for freelance work was risky. “It was a chance I had to take. I wanted to belong to myself, not a corporation. And it’s like I tell my friends: you do have to pay your bills but always remember to feed your soul,” the vibrant 33-year-old says.
Right now, her soul is indeed well fed and her creative ardor overflowing. Her strong ties with The President design studio saw one of her art endeavors – involving hair and triangles – go public at Cape Town’s Toffie Pop Festival. Also at Toffie, her involvement with the international group Papergirl saw participants delivering paper art by bicycle around Cape Town. In September, Marcii’s interior design talents will be unveiled at the Toffie Food Festival.
Marcii has also been kept busy designing album covers for local bands, curating editorial and an exhibition for the fashion blog “Skattie What Are You Wearing?”, sharing her interior design talents with retailers, collaborating with Pederson+Lennard on a table project and of course keeping Cape Town fashionistas satisfied with the wildly popular You, Me and Everyone We Know market held at the Labia Theatre.
And that’s just the start of it.
“I’m a collector: memories, jars, photos, recordings… everything,” Marcii explains, and as she continues on her creative journey she is collecting quite an assortment of projects along the way. “I’m on this journey for myself. Instead of following trends, I am experiencing culture and nature and sporadically picking up projects as I go. It’s not conscious, rather just a natural flow.”
And it’s a flow that is filling the cracks in Cape Town’s creative scene with just the right balance of emotion, spontaneity and old-fashioned hard work.
▲ Where do you get your ideas?
They just come to me. I constantly surround myself with new people, new mediums, new environments and spaces. I really believe there’s, like, an ocean of ideas. And all of the ideas are sitting there. They jump up from time to time and come into your conscious mind and you know them. When a good idea jump up, it really hits you. It’s like a piece of electricity and you see the whole thing align and you feel it and you know what to do. It all comes with the idea. You just have to be open to it.
▲ Where do you do your thinking?
I love to go on journeys accompanied by music, this can be in my car or in a chair next to a fire. I dream a lot. Sometimes I’ll wake up with a clear, mapped-out plan in my head. It’s almost like I feed my brain with music, data, visual information and experiences and in my dream/subconscious state it aligns itself to produce a map of codes that then becomes an solid idea and I make a project out of it.
▲ Who is your creative hero?
First and foremost God the creator of all things. The trinity. The triangle.
It seems stupid to list a name of people if you think of a globe that floats in a galaxy of stars… and secondly I am hugely inspired by the place called… Iceland.
Photos John Second Words Remy Raitt