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D. Twiss
Denver , Colorado-
United States
Acrylics-
Other/Misc.
As family legend has it, when my Grandma Mary was just a girl back in the 1920s, she swore that her first born would be named after her beloved doll, Zola Maizie Miranda. Her firstborn (our mother) got a different name years later, but the imagination in the story lives on as a whimsical inspiration. To me, Zola is the collective inner child, a character of unswerving joy, warmth and unfettered creativity; things very vital to any imagination. I am a Lakota woman and I come from the world of Zola Maizie Miranda, where creative things can and do happen.
One of my favorite authors of all time, Ray Bradbury, said "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
What have I done, people ask? Well, I have happily sculpted, painted, drawn, carved, constructed and sewn many works of art.
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
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Artist Blogs
On dealing with a terrible situation
2011-05-25
I have deleted my other postings about being selected as an artist for a major Cat Care Society art event, because the organization refused to correct errors in my artist information and treated me horribly for asking for the changes. One took 5 months to fix 11 alphabetical characters, and others took 8 months so far with no resolution. This has been a very terrible experience. Will post an update soon.
My Mother's Pain
2010-08-27
My mother, a Director of the local Mental Health program, was returning home from a meeting with co-workers many years ago, when she was badly injured in a head-on collision. She was hurt so badly, that there are not enough words to explain. They said she wouldn't live, but she did. They said she wouldn't walk, but she did. She could have lived on heavy pain pills, but she didn't want to raise her family in a fog. She is very brave and she raised all of us, despite it all. Time passed and in the summer of 2009, she got sick while traveling and ended up in a horrific hospital from hell, in Mississippi. I stayed with her and together (she and I) --we saved her. When she was going to make it home to South Dakota, finally after 3 months, and I knew it from looking at her, I could breathe again. I painted every pain, and was grateful for her strength and will. She is ever beautiful to me, and a wonder.
Deer Nation
2010-08-27
I have painted images of deer people, which are sometimes misunderstood. In Lakota tradition, all things are living spiritual entities and each species has its own nation status--Tree Nation, Deer Nation, and so on. As a child I grew up with stories of the deer people and they had a dual self that was sometimes human shaped and sometimes deer shaped or in between. These are not evil. They are good, but mysterious.
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