Artist Profile
CJMT: Where can your work be seen?
My work is found featured at Poetry and Prose Readings and by invitation.
I also post on my Facebook status.
Soon, I will be offering a blog at my website, magickalcauldron.org
CJMT: What do you want the world to know about your work?
I starting to write in narrative form; it quickly became poetry.
I trust it serves.
CJMT: Who – or, what – do you see as your main influences?
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CJMT: Much of what you do seems to tell a story – even the single, stand-alone – pieces. Where do you think that comes from?
This poem is the intellectual property of the author, Marylyn Motherbear Scott.It may shared with credit given to the author. It may not be published without written permission of the author. motherbearscott@mindspring.com
CJMT: How would you describe your art …? (influences, history, school-of-art, your aesthetic)
Is there a single writer of any genre that I point to as a main influence? No. I think not.
As I mentioned above, as a very small child, I spoke poetry before I could write it.
Fairy tales and folk, Greek myth and song, all contributed to the lyrical and poetic and mythological sensibility I claim as influence and lineage. Theatre came in early for me as well.
Words — I fell in love with them, and with ideas — philosophy and philology and literature.
Writers who mattered to me are too great a number to list. It would fill pages.
The older I get, the closer narrative and poetry become.
CJMT: What did you learn from working in theatre?
Plays are stories that employ voices and a telling, dialogue; sometime narrative, sometimes poetic.
Using dialogue in written works brings them alive and creates a dramatic interplay of person and place.
As a child, I made up and directed living room plays, poems, and stories.
I was chosen to direct my high school senior play.
In Boston University, College of General Education, at WBUR, I worked in radio, creating children’s programs, music shows, news shows.
Transferred to Bennington, to study/do psychology, theatre and dance.
Re-ntered Sonoma State to finish, transferring major to Creative Writing.
In Boston, I created Boston Little Theatre, offering works of artistic, social and political significance.
In Menlo Park, CA, Peninsula School — I created and taught a unique program of theatre and dance
In Ukiah, I created Random Family Drama Camp for Kids, a live-in summer camp, offered for 17 years.
Also taught drama and dance at schools and recreation departments over Mendocino County.
I continue to offer dramatically-based ritual through my 501c3, The Magickal Cauldron of the Western Sea.
CJMT: What would you like to say to other artists/poets (of any genre)?
Be courageous. Don’t doubt yourself. Don’t fear the audience.
CJMT: Do you feel that the questions of the spirit influence what you do?
Absolutely. (See Q. #2)
CJMT: Would you like to tackle your relationship to the fines artes?
I feel in resonance with the Renaissance persona, one who senses and to some extent, practices,
the integration of all the arts. I dabble in painting and drawing; but not often, though sometimes driven to it. I especially like to paint with my granddaughter, Sophia; now 8.5 years old. I have done a great deal of masque work in papier macho and plaster with under-form-building; and have exhibited it as well. I have also showed in Broadside exhibits — art and writing; and, have a collection along these lines.
CJMT: What do you think the state of the literary world is today?
The state of literary art is alive and well, in Northern California and in the on-line world.
Thank you for featuring me and my work in Coreopsis.