Vistas & Byways Review - Spring 2018
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​Visual Arts

Patterns​
collage
​by Pamela Pitt


Artist's Statement
The "Patterns" series references patterns and roles acceptable and unacceptable for women as debated during the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and as shown by the treatment of not only her, but other women who supported her. Actual tissue sewing patterns have been used in the collages. This honors my mother who sewed for 3 daughters while working as a secretary and who was qualified for so much more. She was instrumental in the success of the men she worked for. 
 
Like a lot of baby boomer women, I have been recently reminded of the restraints I faced as a woman and what has changed in my lifetime. This has made me think more about my mother and how much talent, organization and drive she had and what limitations she faced.
 
When I started law school, there were 15 women out of 750 law students. The women were expected to do the refreshments for the faculty student reception. We decided to quit that tradition. So, when Hillary said she could have stayed home and baked cookies, I was with her and have understood the barriers she has faced as a woman ever since. She has paid for not knowing her place and speaking out.
 
Even though the election was in 2016, it generated a backlash that caused the notion that women should keep to their place to emerge stronger than ever from some, while causing many, many women to react and fight back. So, this series continues and is not over.  
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Comfort Zone - Collage by Pamela Pitt
Braniac Girl - Collage by Pamela Pitt
I Have a Speaking Part  - Collage by Pamela Pitt
Play Nice - Collage by Pamela Pitt
Spines - Collage by Pamela Pitt
So Many Choices - Collage by Pamela Pitt
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory - Collage by Pamela Pitt
The Warrior - Collage by Pamela Pitt
Make Your Own Patterns - Collage by Pamela Pitt
About Pamela Pitt
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​Pamela Pitt
Despite going to law school and becoming an attorney, Pamela always took photographs and made art, graduating with an MFA (1990) from the San Francisco Art Institute. She showed her work nationally in both group and solo shows. Seeking daylight after years in the dark room, she started doing collage with mixed media painting, still including photographs. Ideas from social issues became the basis of some of her collage series:
2014: She ripped pages from a law book on the controversial “Patriot Act” to use as collage elements in that series;
2016: Tissue dress "Patterns" were used as elements in a series about the place of women.
2017: She produced a collage series based on the concept of making land a commodity.
 
Photographs and scanner digital art are where her current focus is, trying to achieve peace through creativity and beauty.
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