#gratitude

Love Letter to Life 01.07.2025 Energy Portrait

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Returned to my Santa Fe Community College campus. All is quiet except for a few staff and custodians. Classes begin January 21st but I have access to studio and facilities. I sat and enjoyed my space and work. Good to be there. I walked a few loops throughout the indoor corridors. Baby, it’s cold outside so I’m grateful for the warmth within me, my home, and the college. I did my first “Energy Portrait” of 2025. Hello.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Energy Portrait Graphite on Paper 1.06.25

Love Letter to Life 12.28.2024 Unraveling A Mystery

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Life is mysterious, the comings and goings of daily life happening while another “reality” plays within me. I am deeply moved by a “beaming face” in my dream that inspires me to awake with joy and gratitude. The flickering of candlelight and a familiar song plays lifting my spirit while I unwrap a gift, “Love Poems From God”. That’s spot-on in my wheelhouse where books and art are my companions. Thank you for the gifts of mystery and meaning-making moments.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage 12.28.2024

Love Letter to Life 12.04 2024 Final Critique

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Today my Major Projects class will have a final critique with Shane Tolbert, teacher, and Jordan Eddy, writer and curator. I look forward to seeing my classmates artwork and hearing everyone’s comments. I have received many gifts being at Santa Fe Community College: uninterrupted studio time to explore new work, feedback from a variety of guests, students, and teachers, a wonderful community of people engaged in creative pursuits. I look forward to working in my campus studio and taking classes through May 2025.
yOUrs Truly, Pamela Rose

Acrylic and Collage on Paper 30″ x 22″ 11.14.2024

Love Letter to Life 11.24.2024 Lean Into Love

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, We are entering the season of holidays. I enjoy this time of year, the gatherings, festivities, displays of lights and big bouncing Santas and decorations beginning to show up everywhere. These are outward signs of people sharing their gratitude, joy, and hope. I am conscious that we bear the challenges of living. I am grateful that when we come together in community, we lighten the weight of our individual burdens. Spirit connection leads to love and love is greater than darkness. Lean into the light of love with me today.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

30″x22″ Painting and Collage 11.18.2024

Love Letter to Life 11.15.2024 Start

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I told both of my art teachers, “I am blocked. The events of past few months and unknowns about my health/cancer have me jammed up.” They both said, “Put a mark on the blank paper and get started.” Being a dutiful student, I did start and stroke after stroke flowed from brush to the 30″x22″ paper. I put blue tape to break up surface then collaged pieces of painted paper over it. Finally, a breakthrough. The lesson of this story: Just take a step, an action, a mark on the blank paper or canvas, in life. How many times have I repeated this lesson? An untold number of times. Trust the process.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Acrylic and collage on paper 30″x22″ 11.13.2024

Love Letter to Life 11.12.2024 Setting the Table

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Getting ready for a Card Shark party, I placed Chinese Paper on plates. On each I wrote: Lean Into Love. Cooking, sharing my home with friends, arranging flowers and place settings, all give me joy. It sets the table for me to trust in divine order. The next day, while collaging, an envelope containing $1200 fell out of a magazine named, Breathe. I had “misplaced” this cash in September while in the stupor of Covid and moving. My go to action when something is lost: the Saint Anthony prayer. Thank You, Saint Anthony. Thank you, Creative Currency.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 11.04.2024 Dixon Re-Do

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I had such a good time at the Dixon Studio Tour on Saturday, I returned on Sunday with Pam Platt, long-term artist friend. We went to Rift Gallery and artist studios, ate lunch on the porch of the Dixon Co-op, and watched the weather change. I love northern New Mexico, the land, its people, the cultures, the art communities. I love my body feeling “completely me” while on a hiatus from cancer treatments. Snowfall this morning. All good.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 10.31.2024 BOO!!!

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Halloween brings childhood memories of making haunted houses, dressing up in costumes and consuming massive amounts of candy. Sugar high for weeks! Now the “making” and imagination takes place in the studio. I am finding my way into creating new work. Also taking steps to actualize a project dear to my heart: more to be revealed once it is well underway. I will contain and focus my energy for the months ahead and hope to see the “seeds” that are being planted in Autumn come to fruition in the Spring. Wishing you a happy day for Imagination to surprise you! Boo!!!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Campus Studio 10.30.2024

Love Letter to Life 10.26.2024 Mother and Daughter

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Tracy and I had a wonderful road trip to Jemez Mineral Springs and Los Alamos on Thursday. The weather was perfect and the soaking pools healing. We traveled a loop of breathtaking scenic areas. Last night we ate an early dinner then walked around the plaza. I walked out of Overland Sheepskin Company wearing a beautiful Alpaca reversible coat and Tracy with warm colorful Alpaca socks. Thank you, Rosie, for the gifts! You will be thought of each time your daughter and grand-daughter wear their Alpaca. Laughter lifted into the star-filled night as we scrubbed the seats of my car after an ice cream spill. A very special visit filled with love.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

PRM & TP 10.24.2024 Jemez Mineral Springs