Goatwater
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2011
Bassa Bassa Arts
all rights reserved.
March 15, 2011
Much healing love to all of our brothers and sisters in Japan and to everybody around the world.
Dear Reader,
Thank you for returning once again for another sip of Goatwater. (Don’t worry, I won’t tell) but do please spread the word. If this is your first time, Welcome. I encourage you to start at the beginning. This is the 4th page of Goatwater and there’s much more to come.
I have my hand in several different projects right now that support and intersect with each other. In addition to painting and writing Goatwater, for the internet and print, I’m compiling a collection of short stories/vignettes (Goatwater was actually inspired by a short story I wrote several months ago. More on that in weeks to come) and a book of essays on creativity and related matters. A word about the essays: I’ve been a teaching artist (creative writing with an emphasis on poetry) in New York City for nearly ten years, first with children and teenagers and now solely with senior citizens. The aim of this book is to pull together and clarify what I’ve learned (so far) about creativity from my students as well as what I’ve learned from creating all kinds of art myself. I’ll be including rough excerpts, here, and things I’m thinking about in relationship to these essays, now and again.
I am still working on making Goatwater a weekly webcomic, so stay tuned for that, but you can count on a new page being available every other Tuesday. Write to me at bassacards(at)yahoo.com with any questions or comments.
What We've Buried
I did not grow up reading comic books. Later in life I came to appreciate the freedom of imagination that the graphic narrative form could offer someone like me, a painter and a writer who wants to show and tell stories. My interest in telling stories this way came to me the same way that interests I don’t know I have bring themselves to my awareness – through the act of regularly creating both literary and visual art even when I don't have a single idea or direction, just a compulsive curiosity about life within life (and without life) as experienced in the funky, (un)familiar underside-locales of this here world. Pushing for more access to our greater imaginations, even when it first responds by giving back to us very little or even nothing at all, will eventually open itself up to yield more of its vast, enigmatic nature which can compel us to excavate that cast of characters willing to help us tell those stories that we’ve buried - in the name of civilization - in any way imaginable.
What We've Buried
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2011
all rights reserved.
Much healing love to all of our brothers and sisters in Japan and to everybody around the world.
Dear Reader,
Thank you for returning once again for another sip of Goatwater. (Don’t worry, I won’t tell) but do please spread the word. If this is your first time, Welcome. I encourage you to start at the beginning. This is the 4th page of Goatwater and there’s much more to come.
I have my hand in several different projects right now that support and intersect with each other. In addition to painting and writing Goatwater, for the internet and print, I’m compiling a collection of short stories/vignettes (Goatwater was actually inspired by a short story I wrote several months ago. More on that in weeks to come) and a book of essays on creativity and related matters. A word about the essays: I’ve been a teaching artist (creative writing with an emphasis on poetry) in New York City for nearly ten years, first with children and teenagers and now solely with senior citizens. The aim of this book is to pull together and clarify what I’ve learned (so far) about creativity from my students as well as what I’ve learned from creating all kinds of art myself. I’ll be including rough excerpts, here, and things I’m thinking about in relationship to these essays, now and again.
I am still working on making Goatwater a weekly webcomic, so stay tuned for that, but you can count on a new page being available every other Tuesday. Write to me at bassacards(at)yahoo.com with any questions or comments.
What We've Buried
I did not grow up reading comic books. Later in life I came to appreciate the freedom of imagination that the graphic narrative form could offer someone like me, a painter and a writer who wants to show and tell stories. My interest in telling stories this way came to me the same way that interests I don’t know I have bring themselves to my awareness – through the act of regularly creating both literary and visual art even when I don't have a single idea or direction, just a compulsive curiosity about life within life (and without life) as experienced in the funky, (un)familiar underside-locales of this here world. Pushing for more access to our greater imaginations, even when it first responds by giving back to us very little or even nothing at all, will eventually open itself up to yield more of its vast, enigmatic nature which can compel us to excavate that cast of characters willing to help us tell those stories that we’ve buried - in the name of civilization - in any way imaginable.
What We've Buried
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2011
all rights reserved.
