Rachael L. McIntosh, Author, Artist, Advocate, Mom
Eminent Cycle In Green, oil on canvas (18″ x 24″)
Rachael L. McIntosh is author of the highly-acclaimed “Security Through Absurdity” series of novels. Before working as a marketing communications specialist for one of the largest US defense contractors, she was pursuing an art career in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a B.F.A Painting. She is an Elected Artist Member of the Norwich Arts Council, a Yale Art School Fellowship nominee as well as Fulbright Grant nominee (as selected by MassArt), and has received many scholarships, grants, and awards. Her most recent juried shows include the Fidelity Investments Invitational at the Providence Art Club, Mystic Art Association, Yale University, the Norwich Arts Council Gallery, and the Newport Art Museum. Her work appears in the collections of MIT professor Noam Chomsky, jazz musician John Scofield, Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Library and multiple private collections.
A trained and influential artist in the Boston art scene in the 1990’s, Rachael established EntropyPress, an innovative website that was one of the first to exploit hyperlinks. This was at a time when the only thing you could do at a website was go to “home” or “top of page”. EntropyPress.com rivaled the satire website “The Onion” in click counts in 1997 with it’s Choose Your Own Adventure style of navigation. This digital arts domain quickly grew into a hard copy magazine, a gallery, a recording studio, and a black box theater in Boston’s North End.
Her life soon changed dramatically when she began her battle with Multiple Sclerosis. The disease lead her out of Boston to Connecticut where she found herself working for a military contractor. Working within the defense industry prompted her to get involved with politics in hopes of changing what she saw occurring. It was her experience at the Republican National Convention that compelled her to her write “Security Through Absurdity”. She appears in the feature length documentary “For Liberty”.
During her time at the defense contractor, and later as a political campaigner, she was privy to information and situations that few could even dream of. Her first-hand experience allowed her to write a fictionalized account of the secret world that she was so deeply involved in – from generals to mercenaries, to the largest single-day fundraiser for any political candidate in U.S. history, all the way back to 9/11 inside a defense contractor’s office.
She released the first book of the “Security Through Absurdity” series, “Little Yellow Stickies,” in 2014. The second book and third books called “Bubbles Will Pop” and, “The Big Show,” were released in 2015 with much acclaim. In 2020 she released book four: The Peanut Butter Pipeline. In these books you may enter a world you never knew existed. You may be able to confirm suspicions about Government and the Military and Money that you’ve had for a long time. You may not believe any of it—it is “fictional,” after all… or is it? Sometimes the greatest fiction has more truth than the things we believe to be facts.
Rachael lives in Rhode Island, USA with her twins and emerged in 2021 as a politically unaffiliated candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Previously, she had been appointed to the Rhode Island Geoengineering Study Commission where she researched and produced a body of evidence regarding the government’s formerly Top Secret activity of weather modification. Her work cataloguing and verifying her findings influenced the creation of The Rhode Island Geoengineering Act which is known internationally as a first-of-its-kind type of legislation. Most recently, while expanding her education in Artificial Intelligence, Rachael established The Foundation for Bioethics in Technology. She works to educate the general public about how to safely navigate the bio-digital convergence now occurring.
She self-publishes her books under the imprint of EntropyPress and can be reached via her author’s website www.RachaelLMcIntosh.com She also appears on radio shows and has produced her own weekly podcast called www.shadowcitizen.online which is archived on nearly twenty different internet platforms and aired on terrestrial, independent radio stations worldwide.
Allegory by R.L. McIntosh is a series of 50 signed and numbered hardbound artists’ books produced in the mid-1990’s after she graduated from MassArt. The process of putting the book together made her think of the name EntropyPress. Each contains its own unique drawings of graphite and oil. It is in the collections of MIT professor Noam Chomsky, jazz musician John Scofield, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Library. About 35 were sold. The rest were destroyed in a state-wide flood that hit Rhode Island in 2010.
