Buffalo Gals I worked on illustrating the story ‘Buffalo Gals won’t you come out tonight’ by Ursula K. Le Guin. The story evokes imagery through language moving the reader from real to unreal, employing the slippage of time and concept of inhabited space and being. It is a short story, and I would aim to adopt the story into an illustrated narrative or graphic novel. The story is full of magic and evokes strong feelings around motherhood, and the role of mother as protector and teacher, where grandmother is the wisest of all. The animals that feature in the tale are from native american stories. The tale enables the reader to assess what is real, what is known, against what is not real, what is only felt. Once immersed in the unreal, the real becomes strange. Related
Alice Nant. Illustrations and such. 