Maria mazziotti gillan biography of alberta
Maria Mazziotti Gillan Reading, presented by the Visiting Writers Series at Eastern Connecticut State University on 11/2/.
In , the Poetry Center was founded by Patersonian poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan, who serves as its executive director.
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Artist Statement
My art comes from an instinctive place. In my watercolors and collages I try to do what I do in poetry—that is to let go, to allow the old wise woman who lives in my belly to take over.
Often, when I’m writing a poem, it is as though the poem is writing itself, operating out of the subconscious mind after the first few lines. I don’t allow my conscious mind to control what is going on in the poem. For me, the same thing happens when I am painting or constructing a collage.
She was a history and writing teacher and later was bitten by the writing bug.Allowing my imagination to take over, gives me the freedom to paint people, interiors, or the external world as they exist in my mind rather than in reality.
In my poetry, I try to root my work in the details and specificity of ordinary life, but in my art, I am not attempting to achieve realistic portrayals of people, interiors, or birds, or flowers.
Rather, I am trying to capture energy and feeling. I am trying to allow the essence of the subject to come forth, to convey joy or sadness,