Video Essay ~ Process in Progress
 An ongoing series of self-studies captured in studio while in process, from 1993 to present. 

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"Making Doctor Bird" (another spirit animal) with driftwood and acrylic on paper. 

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"Making Trees" with acrylic, driftwood,
​a seashell fragment & a sheet of paper. I love trees.

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​Untitled
from A Shadow of My Former Self 2011

An ongoing series of self-studies captured in studio while in process, from 1993 to the present moment.

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LIGHT FLIGHT & THE DRAGONFLY
​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"

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A reading in studio of No Talisman & Kindred from The Language of Listening

This video essay  features Pamella Allen reading selected poems in studio
 from The Language of Listening, it is a continuation of the self-study in-studio photo essay series
entitled A Shadow of My Former Self. Artwork in backdrop- Title: Ahimsa Mandala, Size: 5ft Diameter, Medium: acrylic, hand-made/hand-molded paper, sand, silk, and mixed medium, Year: 2014.