Author: Amy Souza

15 Mar

Doug Poms and Jane Hulstrunk

Doug Poms and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Stillness Inspiration Piece Stillness By Doug Poms Response The day after you left was a quiet one.  By then, all my muffled screams, my agonizing cries, my echoing …

 
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15 Mar

Yolanda Palis and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Yolanda Palis and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Yolanda Palis Response The Stray in the Dumpster: The Relative Apertures of Aborted Attempts By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration Piece The dumpster cat whinged, imprisoned After that lid, heavy and absent-mindedly closed, …

 
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09 Mar

Sarah Krouse and
Jessica de Soria Dalton

Sarah Krouse and
Jessica de Soria Dalton

Jessica de Soria Dalton Caribbean Roots Photograph Inspiration Piece By Sarah Krouse The Woods Response I was sitting on the deck at my parents’ house in Connecticut one summer night, listening to …

 
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09 Mar

Jessica de Soria Dalton
and Sarah Krouse

Jessica de Soria Dalton
and Sarah Krouse

Jessica de Soria Dalton Family Tree Photography, 12 X 18 inches Response Episcopal Red By Sarah Krouse Inspiration Piece I will not walk through the red doors. There is a sanctuary …

 
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08 Mar

Jim Doran and Melissa Pasanen

Jim Doran and Melissa Pasanen

Jim Doran “Well, you asked…” Acrylic on canvas Response I Sense You By Melissa Pasanen Inspiration Piece If sound waves unfold Perhaps colors turn cartwheels And scents undulate. If flavors explode Do touches dance the tango And …

 
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08 Mar

Jim Doran and
Cassie Premo Steele

Jim Doran and
Cassie Premo Steele

Jim Doran Response Pieces: Blue Women, Acrylic Paint in sketchbook/illustration board The test is over. Turn in your pencil. Hand it over. You get an automatic …

 
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07 Mar

Robert Haydon Jones
and Tony Anthony

Robert Haydon Jones
and Tony Anthony

Tony Anthony Inspiration Piece Saint Shannon’s Salute By Robert Haydon Jones Response They call me, “Violent Victor.” Behind my back mostly. Sometimes a new guy in the quad – or …

 
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07 Mar

Michelle Wallace and
Cyndle Plaisted Rials

Michelle Wallace and
Cyndle Plaisted Rials

Michelle Wallace Curiouser and Curiouser Response The Looking Glass By Cyndle Plaisted Rials Inspiration Piece Alice, headbanded child, cake girl, don’t come around here no more, confused from caterpillar smoke and Jabberwock gibberish, your …

 
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07 Mar

Tony Anthony and
Robert Haydon Jones

Tony Anthony and
Robert Haydon Jones

Tony Anthony Response Dots… By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration Piece We all have a nifty built-in alarm that goes off when someone we can’t see is looking at us, right? …

 
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07 Mar

Rosemary Luckett and Dale Leffler

Rosemary Luckett and Dale Leffler

Rosemary Luckett Snow Says Response Never Written Poems By Dale Leffler Inspiration Piece Never written poems runaway like playful Samoyed dogs in a winters’ storm. Even if you find them, you can’t really …

 
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07 Mar

Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
and Tim O’Kane

Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
and Tim O’Kane

Lynne Elizabeth Heiser Spice Mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20 inches Response La Cucina By Tim O’Kane Inspiration Piece Most afternoons, sunlight reflecting off the bay leaves a dappled, mottled field of …

 
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06 Mar

Theresa Mason Riffle and Sherry L. Cogan

Theresa Mason Riffle and Sherry L. Cogan

Sherry Cogan Inspiration Piece Untitled By Teri Mason Riffle Response I am tired… not at all inspired I have no time or right frame of mind Monotony… monochrome monotone I am surrounded by people yet I feel alone I …

 
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06 Mar

Pauline Siple and Amy Souza

Pauline Siple and Amy Souza

Pauline Siple On the Wind Response On the Wind By Amy Souza Inspiration Piece The amethyst-colored bug flew into the room, enraptured by the wind. Like the tiny Chihuahua, just seven pounds, grabbed by a gust …

 
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06 Mar

Tim O’Kane and
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser

Tim O’Kane and
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser

Lynne Elizabeth Heiser Spirals and Tiles Inspiration Piece Echoes By Tim O’Kane Response A Man pulls a thread like a boy picks a scab; cautiously, yet casually, thoroughly, yet thoughtlessly. Make …

 
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06 Mar

Jane Hulstrunk and Doug Poms

Jane Hulstrunk and Doug Poms

Jane Hulstrunk Response The Unnaturals By Doug Poms Inspiration Piece I always knew I was different. From an early age, my life was not the same as the lives of …

 
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06 Mar

Lizzie Parker and Charisse Cecil

Lizzie Parker and Charisse Cecil

Currency Charisse Cecil Oil, 8 x 10 inches Inspiration Piece Debtors By Lizzie Parker Response We learned first to back float And stare blindly at the skies, To tread water and hold our breath Just …

 
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06 Mar

Adam Cornford and Amy Souza

Adam Cornford and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Watercolor on mat board 4 x 4 inches Inspiration Piece … … Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs to the person who created …

 
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06 Mar

KJ Hannah Greenburg and Yolanda Palis

KJ Hannah Greenburg and Yolanda Palis

Yolanda Palis Inspiration Piece Plucking By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Softly, like feathers falling from an unsullied carcass, Arbitrary, raspberry sentiments dislodge, plummet, once more while Catching a ticket to humanity’s vitrine …

 
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06 Mar

Tori Lane and Marsha Staiger

Tori Lane and Marsha Staiger

Marsha Staiger Graft series,  CB Rake Acrylic mixed media on canvas Inspiration Piece Through Blinds By Tori Lane Response Gloves and snow covered jeans drip on the tile while I stare through crooked venetian …

 
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06 Mar

Theresa Kulstad
and Caroline Davies

Theresa Kulstad
and Caroline Davies

Theresa Kulstad Collage on canvas 8 x 10 inches Response Blizzard By Caroline Davies Inspiration Piece Ice is tightening its grip. It wants the world all white. It remembers Mammoths their heavy tread making the …

 
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06 Mar

Irene Plax and Amy Souza

Irene Plax and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Watercolor on mat board 4 x 4 inches Inspiration Piece Untitled By Irene Plax Response The baby fell in the water and his sister went in after him. She opened her …

 
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06 Mar

Yolanda Palis and Brian MacDonald

Yolanda Palis and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Cinquain By Yolanda Palis Response Eating berries, apples– knife on gold encrusted plates for Dad and Mom, I recall famine. See larger image. Note: All of the art, writing, and music on …

 
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06 Mar

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Snowy Madison Avenue Inspiration Piece City Snowscape (Remembered) By Annmarie Lockhart Response That winter had to be the coldest up north we’d lived together, the only winter I could talk you into moving …

 
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06 Mar

Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Mano a Mano Response Birthday Gift By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece A sheet of white paper, a stretched white canvas series of silent scenes, fingers poised above ivory keys expecting the unwritten words, the …

 
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06 Mar

Manny Beltran and Annmarie Lockhart

Manny Beltran and Annmarie Lockhart

Manny Beltran Eve’s Rib Response East of Eden By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece I feel these miles of space between us as an ache in my heart just above and to the left of my still-sore rib, bruised from when …

 
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