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E-MAIL ADDRESS: pamelaparmeleeart@yahoo.com
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Born 1944, Amarillo, Texas, raised in West Texas. Always
afraid as a child, of the atom bomb hitting our house,
always of dying,
being followed, even of the mailman. My response was to
constantly make things, violins, costumes, drawings, opera.
I was afraid of Elvis when he played in our town but even
then I felt the shattering effect he had on everyone's
consciousness as if to say somewhere's there's excitement
(but not here). Learned drawing and painting, especially
the freedom of abstract expressionism, at the University
of Texas. I adored classes there but when Kennedy was
shot that year I decided to get the hell out of Texas
for Mexico City. There I studied anthropology, archaeology
and worked on teams painting murals at Universidad Nacionale
Autonoma de Mexico. When the army versus the students
fought it out on campus with machine guns I stopped going
to class and for money started dancing on a go-go-TV show,
modelling and acting in some dreadful films.
The money financed travelling all over Mexico, living
at archaelogical digs and painting in the style of Spanish
colonial art.
I went back to Mexico City whenever I ran out of money
and continued this pattern for next five years. Because
the 60's were a time of everything opening up, I, along
with French friends, experienced the culture of the
Tarahumara indian shamans high in the northern mountains
of Mexico, a la Antonin Artaud. Next I wandered around
the Bahamas and Jamaica feeling lost as so
many of us did in those years and then "moved"
to Europe for the next
three years. I studied classical oil painting technique
in Amsterdam, lived in Copenhagen, on a farm in Belgium,
in Lisbon and visited Paris and
London.
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