P071 Humpty Dumpty After The Fall

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

Emily Dickinson

This Emily Dickinson quote greets you when you visit Seema Shah's website. I met Seema, a Vancouver writer and collage artist, in May 2023 at the exhibition of her work, Unthought Known, at B1 Gallery of The Beaumont Studios in Vancouver.

Seema was a recipient of The Beaumont Studios  Artist to Watch Award 2022 

Seema's creative work, both writing and collage, began after the onset of chronic illness. "Unthought Known" is a quote from psychoanalyst Christopher Bollis which refers to "experiences that reside within us, and that we in some way 'know,' but which we have never 'thought' or been able to put into words."

The exhibition consisted of collages which often incorporated cut up poems. One piece was a book, based on the plight of Humpty Dumpty. 

Humpty Dumpty After the Fall is a collage of Seema's prose and poetry with excerpts from our  zoom conversation.

I hope you enjoy listening.

Carole

Seema's work has been published in numerous magazines. She is shortlisted for the 2023 Contemporary Collage Magazine Awards.

While this program airs, she has work in Paper Play, an exhibition of collage artists at Outsiders and Others Gallery in Vancouver, November 4-25, 2023. She is longlisted for the Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction 2023.

Seema has also exhibited internationally and has an upcoming solo show, Where I Live, Feb-March 2024, at Small House Gallery, a dollhouse gallery in London, UK. The show will feature miniature 2D & 3D works and will be viewable online.

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