Padma Hejmadi & Peter Beagle

His wife from 1989-2001, Padma Hejmadi writes in her biography on her website:

Writing came with studying English at age seven. Usually a constant, it could also come and go as it pleased, past ardor, past ability or disability, past discipline or the lack of it – resulting in that sense of what Henry James calls donnee (the given) where you can neither question its visitations nor sanction its rules. Where like so many others you might learn to make friends with failure or success in varying definitions, but can never lose your love for the perfectly chosen word. Virginia Woolf says, "After all, what is a perfect phrase? One that mops up as much truth as it can hold."

And artist Agnes Martin adds: "There's no such thing as a false step in art, there's only a next step." That's what you hope when, thanks to encouraging friends, you fall into photography in your forties and visual art in your fifties: an autodidact continually making mistakes but somehow enjoying it, and presuming that at least longevity, if not dedication or an earned skill, will take you to that next step!

Her photography:

http://padmahejmadi.com/photos.html

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