Love Letter to Life 10.19.2025 The Heart Remembers

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, In 2021, after 6 months of chemo, a cancer biopsy was done between my heart and lung. The doctor had difficulty and said, “I will try one more time. I don’t want to hit your heart because it will bleed out. But if I hit the lung, we can repair and inflate it”. The third attempt was successful. No bleeding and lungs breathing. The biopsy confirmed Lymphoma cells had spread. More chemotherapy, stem cell replacement, clinical trial, more chemo. Today I am healthy, heart beating, still breathing, living gratefully a day at a time.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Heart Painting 24″x’18” 10.17.25

Love letter to Life 10.17.25 Keep Going

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, My art and spiritual practices help message “Keep Going”. This is especially true when “Life gets lifey”. We all need strength when the road feels bumpy. For weeks, my interior life has been percolating. What changes are coming? I change from the inside-out. I am working on my project, Inside-Out. Keep going and see where it leads. I hope this helps anyone who is percolating. We are not alone.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage 10.15.2025

Love Letter to Life 10.14.2025 Heart Movement

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I am blessed to be an artist with a unique creative voice. (PS we each have a unique voice) Sometimes I scratch my head, wondering what to express. When this happens, I have experience in the practice of making art that tells me, “get out of your head, drop into your heart and move your hand”. Yesterday I tore up brown paper and collaged it onto newsprint. I will follow this energy today. Be In My Heart. Ah, Dear Life!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage 10.14.2025

Love Letter to Life 1013.25 Hand of Fate

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, When the Hand of Fate enters and rearranges my life, can I have the grace and “serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”. A day at a time, I learn from the past, live with courage in the moment, and visualize with wisdom the future. I am having fun with collaging!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 10.12.25 Measuring Up

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, My collages often reveal what is percolating beneath the surface of my skin. October brings around “anniversary” memories that include my second marriage on 10.9.99, and divorce 10.12.2009. In the rear-view mirror, I appreciate the losses and lessons. Writing has always been a healing practice. I wrote “The Shape-Making of an Autonomous Woman”, post-divorce. If interested, you can read it the “Writings” section on my website: pamelamarkoya.com
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage 10.9.2025

Love Letter to Life 10.9.2025 Messenger

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, For my presentation, I hung eleven pieces of my art and read a Love Letter about “being exploded by an atomic bomb”. There was a visceral response from the group. Most people did not know I am living with cancer. I question whether to reveal this but then hear their comments: “Thank you for speaking about your personal experience. Your work impacts me knowing this.” I am a messenger through my creativity.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 10.5.25 Living Inside-Out

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I made transfers from xerox x-ray images onto canvas for my Inside-Out project. The work triggers deep feelings, how out-of-control my body felt while I had intense chemotherapy and Stem Cell Replacement. A doctor said, “We set off an atomic bomb in your body”. The project is near completion. Presentation is on Tuesday. I appreciate the periods of time that I feel healthy and can make art.
Yours Truly. Pamela Rose

Transfers of X-ray Images

Love Letter to Life 09.29.2025 Step By Step

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Figurative Painting prompt: complete a project using yourself as the subject. I went inside-out to begin and will continue this week. I hung pieces together to see what there is and what needs to be added. My teacher and I laughed during a studio visit > “I always have to add a little blood and guts.” >”Yes, you do!” Consistency and innovation. I’ve been turned inside-out by chemo and stem cell replacement but my Creative Spirit remains, changed, but consistent.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Acrylic on Paper and Studio Wall 09.26.2025

Love Letter to Life 09.26.2025 My Foot

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Thankfully, my foot cooperated in posing for this collage. Let’s hope both feet will stay still long enough for me to paint them. Moving forward, step by step, on Inside Out Figurative project.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose