Author: Amy Souza

06 Jun

Brian MacDonald and Irene Plax

Brian MacDonald and Irene Plax

Brian MacDonald square one Response Irene Plax untitled Inspiration Piece The sun over me is so glorious it won’t shut up. Underneath me is the sea. It’s frightening, a world unto itself, …

 
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06 Jun

Vita Sims and
Meghan MacNamara

Vita Sims and
Meghan MacNamara

Vita Sims Dreamscape 1 Mixed Media, 16 by 20 inches Response Just Past the Driveway By Meghan MacNamara Inspiration piece My parents kept a mail Jeep in the backyard, just past the …

 
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04 Jun

Lisa Pimental and Tori Lane

Lisa Pimental and Tori Lane

Lisa Pimental the portal Mixed media on canvas Response piece Wingless by Tori Lane Inspiration piece Holding a green teapot, she sits in the silent patience of her unmoving wings – little kitchen angel …

 
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02 Jun

Sukia and Dale Leffler

Sukia and Dale Leffler

Sukia Response Creating Art By Dale Leffler Inspiration piece A poem or piece of art makes us stop. …suspend time for just a little bit. It opens us up to see …

 
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02 Jun

Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Jan Irene Miller

Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Jan Irene Miller

Jan Irene Miller Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches Inspiration piece Inside By Cheryl Somers Aubin Response In the distance, the building rises like a mountain out of …

 
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02 Jun

Ann Marie Williams and Elizabeth Cordes

Ann Marie Williams and Elizabeth Cordes

Ann Marie Williams “Tangled Ocean Dreams” Response Ocean Dreams By Elizabeth Cordes Inspiration piece There is a long, luxurious hiss as the sun sinks into the ocean. The shimmering light of the extinguishing beast casts …

 
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02 Jun

Marcella Wolfe
and Marty McGihon

Marcella Wolfe
and Marty McGihon

Marty McGihon WIND-UP DOLL Acrylic on paper Inspiration piece OPENING INTO COLOR By Marcella Wolfe Response We would take these colors for what they are if we could only know them: the color of a …

 
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02 Jun

Doug Poms and
Mark Owen Martin

Doug Poms and
Mark Owen Martin

Music: Someone to Go to Brunch With, a Gymnopedie By Mark Owen Martin Inspiration piece Someone to Go to Brunch With By Douglas Poms Response I long for somebody Somebody to go …

 
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02 Jun

Marty McGihon
and Marcella Wolfe

Marty McGihon
and Marcella Wolfe

Marty McGihon ON THE EDGE OF DISTRACTION Acrylic on paper Response RUNNING FROM COLOR By Marcella Wolfe Inspiration Piece She sits in a room nearly empty of color; claims she can’t write with any hue …

 
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01 Jun

Nicole Harper and
Marla Deschenes

Nicole Harper and
Marla Deschenes

Nicole Harper Untitled Response Untitled By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece . Beneath the surface of harmony the dreamers sleep, This is when I come alive. The darkness hides the flaws Societal reject Cloaked in the black …

 
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01 Jun

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Jane Hulstrunk

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Where the Fairies Dance at Night Inspiration piece THE END OF THE AMERICAN ELEPHANTS By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response On the land mass now known as the continent of …

 
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01 Jun

Marla Deschenes
and Nicole Harper

Marla Deschenes
and Nicole Harper

Nicole Harper Sonia and Dog Still Life Inspiration piece Red Sea By Marla Deschenes Response We watched them born into the time of oceans of oil And hoped dolphins might exist past …

 
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01 Jun

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Castle From My Nightmare Inspiration piece Fragments of a Dream By Annmarie Lockhart Response . locked in the turret of a dark cold castle made of rock thrown up on the steep …

 
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01 Jun

Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Primal Urges Response ….. Wolf By Day By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece ….. His colors are exactly the snow, the tree bark, the underbrush. Crossing the brook he stops to look; blue jay to his …

 
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01 Jun

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bobbie Troy

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bobbie Troy

Sheepskin Armor By Annmarie Lockhart Response (photo and poem) ….. It’s a pastoral scene: a Sunday drive, the Amish farm, cotton balls dot an emerald landscape on a clear-sky day. A picture …

 
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01 Jun

Peg Bruhn and Grace Burns

Peg Bruhn and Grace Burns

Peg Bruhn After Her Watercolor Response A Drunken Invitation By Grace Burns Inspiration piece We invited her to stay at our house knowing she wouldn’t take us seriously. The invitation was conceived from a mixture …

 
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31 May

Maureen O’Donnell
and Jim Doran

Maureen O’Donnell
and Jim Doran

Jim Doran Inspiration Piece The Naiads By Maureen O’Donnell Response A thunderstorm rages high above the glass-gray surface of the lake. Plink, plunk, plink in quick-time. Beneath the surface, the …

 
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31 May

Amy L. Alley and Alisa A. Laska

Amy L. Alley and Alisa A. Laska

Amy L. Alley El Limonal Response Alisa A. Laska Inspiration piece Walking steps down flooded dirt road Hope with dirty feet staring eyes and washed-worn clothes. Poking my belly with laughter, Hope dances beneath wooden beams and …

 
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31 May

Bobbie Troy and
Annmarie Lockhart

Bobbie Troy and
Annmarie Lockhart

Lonely Feather by Bobbie Troy Response (photo and poem) one feather on the ground hope or fear? past or present? life or death? you see me but you step on me as you walk …

 
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31 May

Ray Sharp and Adam Garcia

Ray Sharp and Adam Garcia

Marimba music: 09 Seven Days – Light By Adam Garcia Inspiration Piece Belize By Ray Sharp Response First Light The jungle was abuzz with energy before first light. Dark is the realm of …

 
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31 May

Edite Haberman and
Helen Whittaker

Edite Haberman and
Helen Whittaker

Edite Haberman It’s a Girl – Bad Dream Baby Response Bad Dream Baby By Helen Whittaker Inspiration piece My bad dream baby is a daughter. My belly waxes like the time-lapse Moon, The …

 
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30 May

Lauren B. Flax and
Mark Owen Martin

Lauren B. Flax and
Mark Owen Martin

Music: Music Box By Mark Owen Martin Inspiration piece Rose Heart By Lauren B. Flax Response I watched you unfold from your little car As I stood on the steps of St. …

 
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30 May

Yolanda Palis and Jim Doran

Yolanda Palis and Jim Doran

Ancient Learning Jim Doran Inspiration piece Yolanda Palis Response Countless desires too far in the future too distant in the past the boyfriend the career the huge salary I wanted all that. Yet, chose a graveled path unused, …

 
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30 May

Yolanda Palis and
Jewel Beth Davis

Yolanda Palis and
Jewel Beth Davis

Yolanda Palis Response The Scenic Designer By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece A snip of this, A swatch of that, A splotch of color everywhere. Dots of color like Pisarro. Step back. Further back. Further… Your life …

 
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30 May

Elizabeth Cordes and
Ann Marie Williams

Elizabeth Cordes and
Ann Marie Williams

Ann Marie Williams Toward a New Jerusalem Inspiration piece Castaway By Elizabeth Cordes Response The yellow orb, unmoving, sits atop the unchanging sky like a relic, refusing to fall. It is a castaway from our …

 
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