from Ten Realms of the Lotus

 

"The immediacy of Ms. McDonald's vision is evident."
- Janet Kutner, the Dallas Morning News


"These filmic moments examine the powerful ambivalence images have about being crystallized in film or video. Rarely have the emergence of meaning and the appearance of the image been treated in such a simple and subtle way."
- Cinéma libre, Quebec, on The Death of the Lotus


"A beautiful and moving video, Dreamtime dispenses with the pretenses which drive commercial television. It succeeds as art because it is sensitive to the act it is portraying."
- Jim Edwards, Curator of Exhibitions, Salt Lake Art Center

"Rich in detail, buoyed by an evocative Indian soundtrack, and protective of its circumscription, Shadow & Substance gives evidence that what isn't overtly apparent in another culture, to another culture, is intuitively appreciable."
- Peter Szatmary, for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston