INTERVIEW; SADIE LOCKART

SADIE LOCKART: INTERVIEW

Art-rag:
You’re fresh on the scene—like you dropped to the Planet—and as you’ve no doubt noticed, your appearance is otherworldly—so where are you sourced?

SADIE:
-- It’d be simplest to tell you I sprang from the mind of my creator, fully-drawn from imagination, inspiration and intention. . .

I suspect there is a story here, let’s get back to that. Lockhart is a name I remember from the TV show Lost in Space. Any chance you are a relation of June Lockhart, who played the babe space mom?

-- Funny, huh? Yeah, June is my step-grand-mom, though my dad’s not who you’d suspect. Grand Mom’s still a fox—I know she wouldn’t mind me saying so—and sunning herself as we speak in the Seychelles with my half-brother Winni; she tells me she’s writing the tell-all on Lost in Space and the outlandish goings-on, especially with that old Prof guy, what’s his name —

Doctor Smith.

--Yeah, I guess he was a lout, is that the term? and pulled some outrageous pranks on Grand-Mom whilst shooting. My Numerologist made me drop the ‘ h ’ from the spelling, something about opening space for a star to grow, but who would that refer to?

That birthmark across your eye—it is not only quite distinctive—it’s really unexpectedly sexy.

--[Laughs] [Sexily.] No one knows what to make of it. Live who you are, I guess.

Uh—no complaints here. You’re doing some personal modeling for an artist living here in Prescott, and prototyping what are said to be radically-innovative clothing components; you’re also solo recording, and short-listed to co-star the Blade Runner remake. Yikes.
--Busy— yeah. This local guy, a lot of talent, I believe he views me as his transition to LA, but really, the kid just needs an excuse to do the work—you’ll see him up there in a year’s time or so.
The clothes are unique—I think they’re what got me noticed at the B.R. camp. It’s not that they are ‘futuristic’ at all, it’s just that people drag behind. They’re designed to support the wearer—plug them into their social conduits, facilitate work, inspire play and create immense inter-personal appeal—but how I can’t really reveal to you. They work, that’s for sure!

SO you’re a working artist, actor and musician, but it seems your defining role—unusually quixotic even in these anything-goes times—is as Muse; tell me how a gig like that goes, how did you find yourself there?

--Let me correct you. I am preferring the role ‘agent provocateur.’ There is no Muse, think about it— if the Muse functions to tell the artist what to draw, or inspires, perhaps playing the nasty Mistress who exhorts with the promise of reward—what reward is that? Sex, Lamborghini? — or the most: FAME and then what? What is going on here? Who is this Muse? A simple word is mirror. The knowing the artist already knows, already activates. That discipline that says “ Do it this way, do it better, you are not finished, there is more to do tomorrow, so get a good night’s rest — because tomorrow we are gonna be HOT.”
[laughs]
A man—artist—feels he must give through his work, and is more used to giving to women, so he seeks the Muse ideal to ground his effort, really his love—his heart wants to give through his art, and he cannot always see through the abstraction of giving to the world, is more comfortable giving to the woman. An evolving artist can feel how both these energies are working together—are the same thing, really, and then just do the work, give with heart.
It is all about feeling, is it not? A man can focus his love on a woman easier than on the idea of the world…from the world he can reasonably expect fame, money; it is a woman he can believe who tells him he has reached his standard, the ultimate representation of his love he has been working on all this time.
So yes, the artist has his model, but you see now it is not so simple…that guy I mentioned I model with. So, his drawings of me are wild, real sexy and, um, maybe a bit provocative, or maybe I could think them offensive. But if I am the Muse this all is the way it goes.

One would think romance is implied with that sort of intimate association; any issues there?

--Well, the artist always loves his subject; the thing is for him to love his self, and move the love up and out into the world. How big can he go?!

Let’s look at what are you all about. The conceptual art you are involved in is opening some eyes.

--I am liking the role of Agent Provocateur—wow, a new archetype, or just an excuse to get away with the most outlandish stuff?! Either way, it is a close characterization for the work I am doing. I am working with a group here in Prescott—doing what used to go by ‘guerilla’ art; we have successfully re-seeded Lowe’s hill, so that when the monsoons arrive, there will be designs created in vegetation; small ideas like this. People react so well to the surprise of these acts—what is opening in their mind?—a small amazement we hope.

So you are also provoking Prescott, the town?

--Artists do not create alone or for themselves; I never apologize for my influence or non-conformity. Do not minimize the population’s acceptance of Culture. Just because they do not see a lot of it happening around them does not make them blinded to it. If it is arid, provide a cloudburst of color and sensation. I heard there was a tsunami here in the mountains and I knew I was being teased until it was explained that is the way culture arrives here each summer: a fabulous performance turning this whole place around and confounding expectations. This is exactly the way I work: f**king with your expectations and entrenched experience. And do you like to be amazed?! Hell YES!

We will look for your next projects and good luck to you Sadie.

Great! Thanks!