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My Philosophy

An artist is an observer of the world so in that sense I've always been an artist. I grew up shy and southern and this combination shaped my life. Being shy, I peeked at life with close attention to the emotions that swirled around people and situations. Being southern, I learned never to really acknowledge those emotions. So both shyness and "southerness"left me searching for another voice to express emotions. For me art, writing and photography are expressions of emotions that are straightforward and not scented with magnolias.

Marcia Mouron

A while back Marcia Moroun was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. And even though her family moved to Birmingham, Alabama when she was six months old, she, to this day, claims Tennessee as where she hails from because that's where her Dad and Davy Crockett were born. Now, in Birmingham, and at the age of five, a ballerina emerges from a less than willowy body – hence the tutu!

With ballet as more of a personal expression than an art form, we move through Marcia's youth with the arrival of a brother, a cultivated obsession with local animals, and a degree in elementary education/psychology from the University of Alabama. Then came marriage, her son Brandon, a move to Detroit and divorce. Learning to be a single mom was the first step on Marcia's road to writing "You Can I Can." along with learning how to scuba dive, returning to Birmingham and looking after her folks as they very slowly slipped away.

Becoming a beekeeper, a painter and photographer, mastering ballroom and Latin dancing, traveling the world and buying a farm, continued Marcia's "I Can" evolution. At the challenge of a friend to "do something she thought she could never do," she sat down and wrote a children's book "You Can I Can," because if Marcia can … so can you.

Artist

In all my work I particularly enjoy using what I think of as Adjusting the Angle…looking at things from a bit of a different view, which I feel encourages people to take a fresh look at what may have been an ordinary subject.
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Observer

I love to respond to things that reach out for attention…that speak to me. They are things that say stop, take a moment and see what I have to offer. There is a world filled with sights, stories, lessons to learn, thoughts to be examined and connections to be made.
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Southerner

Let me say that being southern makes me proud. I love the south. It is green, vibrant, close, hot, ripe, pulsing with life and has rigid rules for the proper way to do and say things. Perhaps these rules keep this fecund life within proper bounds.
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YOU CAN I CAN

Written in rhyme, YOU CAN I CAN speaks about fun things to do and demonstrates that saying "I Can't" means missing out on that fun. Moreover, from the very start one can ALWAYS be an I CAN that tries! Finally, the end of the book reveals the secret of how to go from being an I Can't to an I CAN!

YOU CAN I CAN actually speaks to anyone, any age, who lets I Can't thinking limit how amazing one's life can be.

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