Before I introduce you to our next artist, I would like to share this quote: 

Woman is born to create. In creating she becomes herself, accomplishes her destiny. Her whole life is only an initiation into creative power. To create is not merely to produce a work, it is to give out ones own individuality.-Jeanne de Vietinghoff. 

I hope it inspires you like it did me. What a beautiful meaning. Such powerful words. I've printed it out and added it to my message board. Maybe you'd like to do the same. Please post and let me know how it affects you. I would love to hear your thoughts. 

Now, I'd like you to meet another fabulously creative woman. 

Pamela Armas, or Gypsy Pamela as she is better known, is my “birthday sister”! 

 

She is one of those artists who dreams more and does more in a day than most of us do in a week. She is a riot of color and enthusiasm and kindness. She is an entire circle of friends all by herself!

When I scheduled to shoot Pamela’s creative space, I allotted the standard three to four hours. When Paula Best, whose studio shoot we had scheduled the day before Pamela’s, heard how much time had been allocated, she immediately called me up and, in her own quiet way, suggested that I might leave the entire day open, just in case.

Well, we drove to Mountainair, New Mexico, a dusty little one-block town in the middle of nowhere, and knocked on Pamela’s door. It was then that I walked into a world more wondrous than any I had ever seen.

Pamela has 22,000 square feet of the most unbelievable collections you will ever see in one place owned by one person … and her story is as much of a fairy tale as all that surrounds her.     

 

We walked around for two hours before we even began to shoot, and then we photographed steadily for over 12 hours. We ended up spreading Pamela’s story over three issues of WWC, and we should have expanded it to at least two more. 

I may only see her once or twice a year, but I love her as if she and I have been friends forever.  

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