Centa Theresa

As a writer and artist/designer, the intent here is to provide a forum for sharing creative resources: whether it be thoughts on creativity or the making and remaking of our lives through time. It could be dreams, book and movie recommendations, collaborative writing, happenings, interviews, self-coaching and writing prompts, and things I won’t know until they become manifest.

Most of my writing has first taken form in my diary. I resonate with the phrase “first thought best thought” coined by Allen Ginsberg, from the title of Chogyam Trungpa’s first collection of poems (that I admit to not having read). I do revise, however, so compulsively, at times, nothing gets passed me, and I mean, nothing. I have mostly written poems and memoir. (meta text: If I can keep it in mind that this is just taking my diary to the next step, I should be fine.)

I am drawn to hybrid forms, whether between the arts, or within one, and may appropriate from fragments, whether of text, pattern, object, or ornament. From this seemingly arbitrary collection I will assemble a new context. At times leaning toward kitsch or even (admittedly) cliche, I strive to create with enough heart that you might want to interact with the objects I make, whether it be eating from a plate I’ve made, drinking from a cup, enjoying a hand-screened print on your wall, or reading a poem I’ve written.

This blog will help facilitate a public voice comfortable enough with itself that it won’t mind changing clothes in front of you! More will be revealed, as they say.