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| Broken Glass on a Wall San Miguel de Allende Pamela Moore Dionne |
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My philosophy of art and life is based on curiosity, which has allowed me to travel a rather irregular road of discovery. One of my earliest memories is of my grandfather reading the poetry of Robert W. Service, Walt Whitman, and Robert Burns in a thick Scottish brogue. I wanted to be a pirate until I was twelve years old, thanks to Richard Hughes' A High Wind In Jamaica and the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, thus dashing my mother's hopes of me ever becoming a sorority girl.
Classical music has always been an integral part of my creative process. I began piano lessons at five and switched to violin at nine after hearing Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet." This was when I began writing poetry. Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Walt Whitman, and the beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski influenced my writing. I was fortunate enough to see Diane Arbus' first photographic exhibition, which influenced my art in a profound and original way from which I've never recovered. I strive for originality and music in my writing. I am drawn to art that surprises, that forces me to see the ordinary in an extraordinary way, that reveals and enlightens. I love art that exposes the face of humanity as do Arbus's photographs. The poetry of Sharon Olds and Charles Bukowski affect me in the same way. When I read them I know I am experiencing something true. I appreciate playfulness, experimentation and a willingness to break the rules. I love art that is wild, that wanders outside the given boundaries, that takes a closer look. |