2 results for (book:ur2 AND session:721 AND stemmed:studio)
1. The series of visions that made up my overall perception of the black woman in Jamaica were the most vivid I’ve experienced yet. For me they had a most unique, thrilling, immediate quality, and strong emotional involvement. As I sat at the typewriter in my studio, I was flooded with perceptions of myself as such a woman: Pursued by an armed English military officer, she ran for her life down a hilly village street. She wasn’t especially young. Her — my — name? Maumee, or Mawmee — an illiterate but shrewd, very strong personality who was acting in rebellion against the colonial authority of England in the early 1800’s. She escaped that time, and lived to struggle often against such forces on the island.
I’m most gratified that some of the Jamaican visions were externalized, that I didn’t see all of them within as I did for the Roman series. That is, with open eyes I saw fleeting hectic images in the studio. I felt emotions. I was exhilarated by the whole thing.