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A Maker since Childhood

I've been making objects since tootsie rolls were my medium.  Yes tootsie rolls, I remember shaping things out of my tootsie rolls, then I'd eat them.  I'd watch my dad in the garage making furniture out of wood, wrought iron, copper and anything else he had on hand.  I started my maker life making poetry as a 12 year old, I continued to write through my school career including and up to my graduate degree at NYU.  In high school I majored in wood shop and craft art.  I sold my macrame jewelry on the streets of Boston after my freshman year at Boston University. I also started photography that year.  I returned to photography as part of  my creative thesis project in graduate school.  But when I started to play with clay as a first time pregnant person, it was then I became obsessed with a medium that has carried me thru to today.  Twenty eight years later I look forward to widening my experiences with clay through the addition of metal into my work.  I begin that journey in earnst this fall with a welding workshop in Massachusetts.    
 
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Hi, I'm Pamela

My creative process is one where I have a starting out point or some limitation or found object and work out from that point.  I don't develop ideas and then make an object to convey that Idea.  I make an object and learn what I'm conveying as the process unfolds, as the object becomes a thing.  I like the quotation of Joan Didion, the author, who wrote  " I write to know what I'm thinking."  That is similar to how I work.   The creating comes first the explanation after as that is equally as imaginary as the object itself. 
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