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6/30/2016

Process In Progress; Light Flight & The DragonFly

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The Dragon Fly is one of my spirit animals, an archetypal image that returns and returns in the works; a very early childhood memory of watching Dragonflys swoop and dart in and out of the ethereal evening sun at the riverside. In all cultures' from the indigenous to the occidental, the Dragonfly is symbolic of change; "self realization; and the kind of change that has its source in mental and emotional maturity and the understanding of the deeper meaning of life. .Japan made the dragonfly its national emblem. It is a symbol of joy and rebirth. In some Native American traditions, it is also a symbol of the departed souls. For the Mayan, the dragonfly is the emblematic animal of the goddess of creativity, Ix Chel. It is said that the dragonfly’s wings and magical songs revived her after she was almost killed."
​To quote Octavia Butler, "Change is God"
 The original acrylic & mixed media painting now in private collection,
entitled Blu Dragon or Dreaming the Dragon. & The BlU Dragon V-Neck.
 

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Excerpt from The Language of Listening, image and prose by Pamella Allen:
Ritual
Ritual to bring water
Ritual to bring Rain
Water to quench your parched earth
Water to quench your thirst
We dance to bring down the baby
We dance the coming birth
We stomp, we drum down the dead
To carry the soul on ahead
We sing and chant the pain away
We sing and chant insane away
They say to pray the devil away
And some to even make him stay.
Pamella Allen 2014 

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Night of Dreams 60"x20" Acrylic and mixed medium on canvas Pamella Allen 2004

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6/22/2016

Studio News! Pamella Allen Wearable ArtWorks "PAWA" & Process.

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Pamella Allen Wearable ArtWorks "PAWA" 
​PAWA is born of a desire to make my original artworks more accessible to everyone.
With natural fabrics for the body.
Gender Neutral.
Each garment is custom designed, printed & constructed. Signed & numbered in a
limited edition series of 200.
Energy Positive for the Soul. 

10% of all proceeds will be donated to a cause, arts-in-education; and an organization
Community Word Project,
 
that is near and dear to ​"My Activist Heart".

 
 Community-Word Project is a New York City based 501(c)(3) arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read, interpret and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs.
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The first 3 works featured in PAWA span 20 years of art making.
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I created Word Mandala as mantra, and meditation, the first in my series of text only mandalas, here the word is image and as always the word is positive.
Blu Dragon is a very early childhood memory of watching Dragon Flys swoop and dart in and out of the evening sun at the riverside. The Dragon Fly represents evolution/change, for better, change for growth "Change is God".
​The DTS Installation photo essay is a moment captured inside of a 3'D x 7'L acrylic, mixed medium, mylar, sand & earth stone installation. I wanted to capture the interaction of the installation with natural light at different times in the day and night



Process in Progress
Happenings in Studio.
A peek inside..

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​The process of creating imagery from the chaos of observation/memory & re-appropriating and layering them with artifacts from my life continues..

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Coming soon:
Small Works Reproductions featuring selected works from "My Mandala".
Stay tuned for new additions to Pamella Allen Wearable ArtWorks 'PAWA"




From "My Activist Heart"​
I wish to share a special note with you that was sculpted by Yo, one of my magical special ed-students.
Although he is categorized as non-verbal, Yo communicates better than most. And so the student becomes the teacher. Love is All.
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Yo's sculpture, his parting message.

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    Pamella Allen

    Born hard-wired to replicate what I see, the creative process is an intuitive one for me that is greatly informed by the mystic beauty of the natural world and my experiences with death and impermanence. In my infancy, it was the death of my mother followed by its relentless recurrence over the course of my lifetime that has driven me to seek out, replicate and create all that I can and cannot see to explore these confounding mysteries. I breath, I paint, I live in an attempt to capture what I have observed in my travels around the world, over land and sea, and find place in it. A Jamaica born, Brooklyn based artist, I use artifacts from my life experiences pulled from memory and observation, my work is layered in process: Mixed media paintings, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, Installation, photography/video essay & prose combine to create my own archetype, a universal language of images found and remembered that speaks to the diversity of my heritage, lived experiences and reverence for the mystic found in our natural world.
    Pamella Allen 2020
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    Vibration Positive Artworks for Mind, Body and Soul. “A traveler, knowledge seeker, poet & change maker, Pamella Allen is an artist with an agenda.” RTGB

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