Friday, February 21, 2014

Maroonlight Cantata

8"x7"- acrylic paint on wood panel

Maroonlight Cantata
This painting is a song of the rainforest.  It is a prayer for a hymn, an epiphany, a sonorous parable to light the way in the wet dark.  A song with a subtle frequency heard only by certain Caribbean crickets and the many supernatural ears of the Holy Spirit. 

Tiffany Osedra Miller
(c) 2013




Twisted


"Twisted" for Illustration Friday
6" x 8"- ink and oil pastel on rag paper

Tiffany Osedra Miller
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Waiting

 
(9”x12” acrylic paint and ink on Bristol paper)
 
Waiting

For everything or everyone we wait for,
Perhaps there are wonderful people we’ve overlooked
Who might already be wherever we are,

Or who would go anywhere to meet us right now
Or at least would have when we needed them back then
People ready and willing to spend time

With us amongst all of our wonderful things
No matter how big or small –
That time has already awarded us.


"Waiting"
Copyright 2013
Image and Poem
by Tiffany Osedra Miller   
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Freeze (a drawing on cotton rag paper)

 

"Freeze"  for Illustration Friday - 8/11/12

 by Tiffany Osedra Miller
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Lonely (a drawing on a 3"x5" index card)



pencil on 3" x 5" index card

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Don't Wanna Hear Another Song With The Word Mama In It


                                                                                    SOLD
Acrylic paint and gesso on a canvas sheet pasted to latex paper 6" x 9"

by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2011
all rights reserved.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

At The End OF The 8' O Clock Race

"At The End Of The 8 O'Clock Race" everyone will begin to transform any internal state that makes them suffer.

"At The End Of The 8'O Clock Race"
(acrylic paint on gesso primed sketch paper - approximately 1o" x 6.75")
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2010
all rights reserved.

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Monday, December 6, 2010

Catfish Bone



Acrylic paint, india ink and gesso on 8 1/8" x 8 1/8" wood

"Catfish Bone"
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2010
all rights reserved.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Festival of Subterranean Delight



(6" x 9" cotton canvas sheet glued to latex paper. Acrylic paint, india ink and gesso)

"The Festival of Subterranean Delight"
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2010
all rights reserved.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

The Aboriginal University of Uncivilized Storytelling

 
                                                                                             SOLD
(approx. 8" x 7 " - acrylic paint, india ink and gesso on cotton rag paper glued to a 3/16" thick wood panel)

I've been thinking about stories lately and the ways we are so used to reading them and relating them to other people. We've developed conventions about storytelling but I believe some of the best stories come to us in the language of dreams where the beginning is at the center and the end is in the middle of the beginning...

"The Aboriginal University of Uncivilized Storytelling"
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2010
all rights reserved.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Gloria in the Sky with Imogene




Acrylic paint on cotton rag paper glued to wood. approx. 8 1/8" x 8 1/8"

"Gloria in the Sky with Imogene"
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2010
all rights reserved.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

The Servants of Salome




I painted "The Servants of Salome" with acrylic paint, india ink and gesso onto a cotton canvas sheet glued to a piece of (approximately 6" x 6") watercolor paper. This painting features rich copper colors with hints of gold.

Friday, October 1, 2010

The Substitute Daughters of Wilhemina

                                                                                                                          SOLD
(Acrylic Paint and gesso on a 6" x 9" unstretched acrylic canvas sheet glued to latex paper)

This painting explores how grief and desire torment us with their doppelgangers, substitutes and mirages for something or someone no longer apparently there.


"The Substitute Daughters of Wilhemina"
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2010
all rigths reserved.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Oh, When You Leave This Earth



Acrylic paint, india ink and gesso on approximately 6" x 9" unstretched cotton canvas attached to board.

The afterlife I’ve learned about and wondered about as a young black girl growing up in the church is sometimes overshadowed by the afterlife I believe I visit in my dreams. A place populated with familiar yet unfamiliar landscapes, departed ancestors and strangely shaped beings. Where do reality, history, heritage, belief, truth and imagination converge?

"Oh, When You Leave This Earth"
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
Copyright 2010
all rights reserved.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Rebirth of Sunday



Acrylic paint and india ink on 6" x 9" latex paper

Saturday, August 28, 2010

The Show (Creative Process)



(Acrylic paint, india ink and gesso on 6" x 9" latex paper)

This painting combines my 1980’s childhood and teenage memories of a violent, gritty, gaudy and decadent Times Square in New York with my “grown-up” reflections on the so-called underworld of sex, outcasts, masquerade, stereotypes and exploitation.

Process:

I started this painting with no set intention and and completed a draft of it which you can see below. I left it in this state for awhile thinking I had finished it, though I felt unsatisfied. I contemplated this painting for a few days and wrote about it until, to my surprise, the New York Times Square imagery opened up and I began to weave it into the overall work. As with most of my work, I created this painting with acrylic paint and india ink.



On writing about a painting I've created:

A lot of the writing I do for a painting, in order to understand it more deeply, comes in the form of stream of consciousness and poetry. This approach works very well for me because much of my work comes out of dreams and visions I've had or are currently experiencing. A lot of what I write seems very disconnected from what I've actually created but after ahwile it begins to come together and feel more meaningful to me. It is not always easy to create something from an unconscious place and then try to make sense of it. I've wrestled with this for awhile and decided that it's best to experience what I've created, enter into it and then try to integrate it into a framework that eventually I can accept.

On writing about this particular painting, "The Show"

There is a particular kind of corrupt innocence with which I look at the world which makes paintings like this one fairly cathartic to me. I am facinated by masks, puppets and puppeteers and look back on those waning days of the "real" Times Square with a disturbing nostalgia for the overwhelming presence of peep shows, drug dealers, addicts, arcades, homeless people, filthy movie theaters and prostitutes. Who wasn't a puppet back then? Who's not a puppet right now? And why would anyone actually miss those days in New York and long for them again? What's so wonderful about prostitution, poverty, sex addiction and drug addiction? I guess that depends on who you ask. In truth, although this city took great strides to hide these "undesirables" they still exist - in us and among us. That's why so many people come from around the world to catch just one whiff of what Times Square was before Disney did to it what it did to Grimm's Fairy Tales. Well, for me those days in New York haven't gone away they've simply been driven deeper underground. Times Square was to many people what the internet is now. But to think that the Times Square of today as merely just a wonderful, safe and clean place for tourists with their children to visit and enjoy amuses me because the notion is merely another affectation and mask. [Whew! There goes my native New Yorker cynicism again. At least I'm smiling :) ]