Still reeling from stark email messages that included hurtful words like ‘remove us’ and ‘refrain from’, Court Painter retreated into his studio and slammed the door. Speaking to him through a crack in the door his Press Attache A Hardon MacKay was assured he was all right and “just wanted to work on new word paintings”.
In the light of this studio drama Press Attache A Hardon MacKay issued a short message
“When social media brings messages of rejection, repudiation, rebuff, spurning, abandonment, forsaking, desertion, shutting out, exclusion, shunning, cold-shouldering, ostracizing, blackballing, blacklisting, avoidance, ignoring, snubbing and cutting dead….Court Painter shows us that his retreat into making art provides the inner resilience to rebuff the bruises brought on by having a social media address that brings stark messages of rejection.”
