Author: Amy Souza

Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza “Soler Sequence” Ink and pencil on paper Response Solar Birthing Soler By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece   Walking thru the summer sun The sandals flap from heels alight And breezes blow neath …

 

Amy Souza and Amanda Miska

Amy Souza and Amanda Miska

Amy Souza “Ray of Hope/Desire” Ink and pencil on paint chip, with mixed media collage Response Jacob’s Daughter By Amanda Miska Inspiration piece . In high school, my husband was a wrestler. It still …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg and Connie Begg

KJ Hannah Greenberg and Connie Begg

Connie Begg, Inspiration Piece Yerida, KJ Hannah Greenberg Soldier Boy, Was it not enough To don khaki, salute with guns, Roll around the hills in camouflage? There were funds; Government. Army. Private philanthropists. Offering …

 

Jane Hulstrunk
and Charisse Cecil

Jane Hulstrunk
and Charisse Cecil

Jane Hulstrunk Response   Blues By Charisse R. Cecil Inspiration piece My music, my mood. Billie and Miles. Melancholy and mellow. The berries in my morning muffin. His bow-legged, boot-cut, denim-clad swagger. The funky-sweet blend of sweat, liquor, tears …

 

Sandy Coleman and Charrise Cecil

Sandy Coleman and Charrise Cecil

Sandy Coleman Response Charisse Cecil Inspiration Farewell, stairwell I’m ready. I’m standing in these slotted shadows, leaning against this cinderblock wall that is coated in countless layers of paint vainly attempting to cover generations of …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Sukia

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Sukia

Sukia Inspiration piece Windfall Fruit © KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Windfall fruit might, just perhaps, disrupt enough leaf circles, Trounce sufficient baby lizards (otherwise scuttling red-purple), Bounce my heart, maybe, clear of …

 

Charisse Cecil
and Lizzie Parker

Charisse Cecil
and Lizzie Parker

Fallen Angels By Charisse Cecil Response Visions By Lizzie Parker Inspiration piece I have never seen a saint Or been in the presence of angels Though, I hear that they are both all …

 

Andrena Zawinski and
Helen Lewis

Andrena Zawinski and
Helen Lewis

Andrena Zawinski Sandbagged by Love Response Helen Lewis Keyboard Love Inspiration piece

 

Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza Acrylic, lava gel, and beeswax on canvas Response Passion By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Passion – a whelming over thrusting active force Tensile, heat seeking, volcanic, concussive, consuming, inhale/exhale Exhaust …

 

Lizzie Parker and Charisse Cecil

Lizzie Parker and Charisse Cecil

Charisse Cecil Inspiration piece From Here, I Can See By Lizzie Parker Response . Once upon a time, My daddy would say That his little girl put God’s own angels to shame And my …

 

Sandy Coleman and
Annmarie Lockhart

Sandy Coleman and
Annmarie Lockhart

Sandy Coleman Moonlight Lady Collage on canvas Response Waxing and Waning By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece: crescent moon on a clear-sky night she shines center stage in front of a deep dark velvet curtain with a handful …

 

Lizzie Parker and Charisse Cecil

Lizzie Parker and Charisse Cecil

Lizzie Parker Patch of Sky Response Blues By Charisse R. Cecil Inspiration piece My music, my mood. Billie and Miles. Melancholy and mellow. The berries in my morning muffin. His bow-legged, boot-cut, denim-clad swagger. The funky-sweet blend of sweat, …

 

Amy Souza and Denise Marois

Amy Souza and Denise Marois

Amy Souza Digitally manipulated photograph of original artwork (marker, acrylic, and collage on paper) Response The Goat Club By Denise Marois Inspiration piece Desiree bends over a copy of a 1926 National Geographic …

 

Amy Souza and
Caroline Evey

Amy Souza and
Caroline Evey

Amy Souza On the other side of the world from where you are Marker, charcoal, graphite, acrylic, and collage on paper Response By Caroline Evey Inspiration piece when i feel lost, …

 

Ana Gonçalves and Lisa Biggar

Ana Gonçalves and Lisa Biggar

Inside Life, Tammy Ana Gonçalves Response Tammy Lisa Biggar Inspiration Piece My cousin and I would make smores and tell ghost stories in our tent, drifting off to sleep with the ground …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg and David Truman

KJ Hannah Greenberg and David Truman

David Truman Ties That Bind Inspiration Piece Encircling as Wrapping: Misread Six Autistic Rotating among Angels KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Piece I spin, (six) propeller arms on the playground, Encircling again to …

 

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Nancy Claeys

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Nancy Claeys

Nancy Claeys Direction Inspiration piece . Wind’s Gift By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Response One evening every weathervane from ancient barn to little church released a rooster into dusk from high upon its metal perch. Farm wives tossed …

 

Irene Plax and Margot Eyring

Irene Plax and Margot Eyring

Margot Eyring Transforming Inspiration piece Irene Plax Response Rich is at the eighth hole when his cell phone rings. He procures it from the pocket of his khakis. Tee off was …

 

Margot Eyring and Irene Plax

Margot Eyring and Irene Plax

Margot Eyring Dust Cloud Response The Hum By Irene Plax Inspiration Piece The drill howls and grinds on the street. It wakes Marley. She rolls over, but her husband has slept …

 

Michelle Wallace and Jewel Davis

Michelle Wallace and Jewel Davis

Michelle Wallace Hold Onto Hope Response Piece The Italian Brownies By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration Piece Providence 1974 It is autumn and camp is over. I am back in Providence preparing to …

 

Gwynne Mason and
Marla Deschenes

Gwynne Mason and
Marla Deschenes

Gwynne Mason Anica Response October By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece October closes its sweatered arms around me The crunch of falling leaves greet both my feet And my constant companion’s Though his feet …

 

Paula Lantz and Rebecca Harris

Paula Lantz and Rebecca Harris

Red Rumor by Paula Lantz (Piece is acrylic, comprised of two canvasses, for a total of 28 x 44) . . Baby Dishes by Rebecca Harris . pin prick of winter rain rounds …

 

Rebecca Harris and Paula Lantz

Rebecca Harris and Paula Lantz

untitled (For F.S Moskowitz) she doesn’t tell us “slow-ly” no adverb wielding Philistine she prose enunciated with practiced languid ease she describes heartache down to the follicle Some slow pull of …

 

R. Dennis Hayes and Adam Cornford

R. Dennis Hayes and Adam Cornford

Windham Chill By R. Dennis Hayes Response to Spring (1868-1873) J.-F. Millet A grassy track recedes between small plots with apple trees tipping their blossom over rows of cabbages or fallow …

 

Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

Greg Lippert First Drink Inspiration Piece The Woodchuck’s Sleep Coming On By Robert Haydon Jones Response You probably know my younger brother. For nearly forty years, he was a famous television …