In Our Yellow Submarine - Suzanne Kachmar

The Art - Making "We All Live in a Yellow Submarine" was prompted by a sense of nostalgia. I can remember playing the Beatles' album on my grandfathers' hi-fi, my baby brother and little cousin dancing, while another cousin was off to Vietnam. Peter Maxx, psychedelic thoughts and imagery (for good or bad) were influencing our thinking and attitudes. Thiry years later one Beatle has been assassinated, "When I'm 64" doesn't seem too old and my brother's children dance to "All You Need is Love." I doubt that this song would make the charts today. The taste of a jaded society wouldn't buy it. But the yellow submarine is still a playful yet ominous image, stirring up thoughts of Magical Mystery Tours, adventure, exploration, war and tragedy (exemplified most recently by the disaster of the Russian submarine Kursk). Thirty years from now what will the "Nowhere Man" see? - Suzanne Kachmar

The Artist An artist who has exhibited widely in New York City and in New Haven and Fairfield counties, Suzanne began her formal training at the Academia Di Belle Arte in Perugia, Italy. She has followed her muse into areas as varied as building props for Cabaret Theatre, lithographic printing and mural painting. Suzanne has been an art and drawing instructor, a therapeutic recreation coordinator and presently serves as artist in residence at The St. Michael's Institute of Sacred Art, Ender's Island, Mystic, CT.