Author: DJ The Griot

Visual stroryteller, spiritual Griot, dream interpreter, lover of life and humanity, writer/director of films, world traveler, committed to growth, afro-futurist.

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee the Artist “When the Giants Cam0” Pencil drawing Response Free New World for The Formerly Oppressed By Darice Jones Inspiration piece It wasn’t until the ancestors of all the world’s people …

 

Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist “Reflected” Digital painting Inspiration piece Both By Darice Jones Response I am your tether and your balm Source energy is clever that way 7 billion plus mirror-souls on this blue orb Looking …

 

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee the Artist “Wade” Inspiration piece Submerged By Darice Marcella Jones Response Submerged The earth was scorched And I couldn’t bare to look at our seeds Even though I was well aware of the …

 

Quinzee The Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee The Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist Response Clay By Darice Marcella Jones Inspiration piece Out front They called to me from their homes And asked if I would stand out front and face the world on …

 

Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist “The Download” Inspiration piece In the Time of You As Me By Darice Jones Response The day I accepted that you were me, and I you The path broadened Power …

 

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee The Artist Untitled Pencil Drawing Response 15 Horizons in Ultra Space By Darice Jones Inspiration piece These two beautiful beings prefer to be called my daughters In all their manifold non-binary …

 

Quinzee the Artist and Darice M. Jones

Quinzee the Artist and Darice M. Jones

Quinzee the Artist Untitled Pencil Response Black Space By Darice M. Jones Inspiration piece My people are the cool dark vast The clap and clank of tom drum and tambourine across time and interstellar truth We rhythm …

 

Darice M. Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Darice M. Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee the Artist “Aunti” Graphic art Inspiration piece Emergence By Darice M. Jones Response I came forth from the deep, dark, cool blue(s), purples, and teals of an asylum orb up in …

 

Darice M. Jones and Shaun Jones

Darice M. Jones and Shaun Jones

Shaun Jones Acrylic on canvas and collage Inspiration piece Slay By Darice M. Jones Response Sometimes I have to adjust My spiritual eyes To know what I am looking at Whether the suffering in …

 

Shaun Jones and Darice M. Jones

Shaun Jones and Darice M. Jones

By Shaun Jones “First Rite” Response Mohair By Darice M. Jones Inspiration piece My name is Bimi and I am co-leader of global Rights of Passage ceremony on the Earth’s parent …

 

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/videoplayback.mp4 Sarah Pizer-Bush “Yesterday Project” Video collage & voiceover Inspiration piece Me, Myself, and Tomorrow By Darice Jones Response Who would have thought that we’d be here, inside a whole new way of …

 

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush Watercolor on canvas Response Missing Daughters of the Movement By Darice Jones Inspiration piece Latasha with the big amber eyes and glowing almost-black brown-colored skin descendant of intersecting activisms of remixed …

 

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Lighting Rituals, Photo/Graphic” Response The Problem with Birthdays By Darice Jones Inspiration piece “Why do you think it is that some people really don’t like their birthdays?” My work BFF …

 

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice M. Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice M. Jones

Darice M. Jones “That’s a Stretch” Enhanced photography Inspiration piece Before the Bloom By Sarah Pizer-Bush Response stretching covers across body seeking comfort seeking warmth now is the time to pull all the way in divine …

 

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Something Swirling Within” Response 44 Falls to Rapture By Darice Jones Inspiration iece 422 Falls To Rapture Eight times a year since the day she was born Something within would swirl …

 

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Together Not Alone” Inspiration piece Healing Time By Darice Jones Response There is kind of healing that happens in solitude Just you and the breath Just you and the precious stone Just …

 

Darice Jones and Tiffany Golden

Darice Jones and Tiffany Golden

Tiffany Golden Response Neither Here Nor There By Darice Jones Inspiration piece It was like transitions were booming in her ears in that way the first thunder of the season could …

 

Tiffany Golden and Darice Jones

Tiffany Golden and Darice Jones

Tiffany Golden “Forever Connected” Inspiration piece Cosmic Colors and Fire Songs By Darice Jones Response Davina and Monèt’s Spirits had come into being around the same time – way, way, way …

 

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones “Sharing This Space With You” Graphic pixel play Response Reflections at the End of a School Year By Sarah Pizer-Bush Inspiration piece We sit together and remember precious moments that …

 

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Retreat” Inspiration piece Beyond Shapes Like Globes By Darice Jones Response We sent our elder’s souls into the bodies of small furry animals as a way to observe the …

 

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Ritual” Response The New Elements Cloak By Darice Jones Inspiration piece I kept bending. You were on a bender Drinking my light like it was Facundo Paraiso and coke I mistook the …

 

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Darice Jones “My Echo” Inspiration piece Blues Diary 2022 By Sarah Pizer-Bush Response Spent winter months cloaked in blues again. So many feelings suppressed. Sediment. Layers of loneliness, grief, rage, and …

 

Darice M. Jones and Tora Estep

Darice M. Jones and Tora Estep

Tora Estep Oil on canvas Inspiration piece Earthen-Colored Vibes and Futurescapes By Darice Jones Response Bing! Ring! Ding! Hummmmm! Bing! Ring! Ding! Hummmmm! Bop, on pop, on bop, bop, bop. Tap, tip, tap. …

 

Jennifer Fendya and Darice Jones

Jennifer Fendya and Darice Jones

Darice Jones “Heat Before Spring” Inspiration piece Forgotten Hope for Tomorrow By Jennifer Fendya Response We had a blast though how is it ………we’d forgotten to put money where our mouths caught fire We kissed this park deserted tongues …

 

Darice Jones and Jennifer Fendya

Darice Jones and Jennifer Fendya

Darice Jones “Return to You” Response Pantoum for My Pandemic Partner By Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece I really saw you for the first time when I had no other place to …