Category Archive: SPARK 12

Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones

Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones

Matthew Levine Without You Response Piece Without You By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece . Everywhere I go without you is without you. . Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site …

 

Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine

Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine

Matthew Levine Loss Inspiration piece My Tawdry Story By Robert Haydon Jones Response piece Chances are you know me from your Evening News or Dateline NBC or 60 Minutes. I’m the …

 

Lisa Lipkind Leibow and Russ McIntosh

Lisa Lipkind Leibow and Russ McIntosh

Russ McIntosh MidnightDream Digital Composition Inspiration piece Rooted In the Heights By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response Phoenix of the Sequoias interlaced his branch tips with Scarlett’s, tapped his roots in rhythm to the song …

 

Russ McIntosh and Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Russ McIntosh and Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Russ McIntosh Love’s Sorrow Digital composition Response A COILED SPRING By Lisa Lipkind Leibow A novel excerpt (A portion of this yet-to-be published novel appeared in Pisgah Review as a standalone short …

 

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 …

 

Marla Deschenes and Rachel Morton

Marla Deschenes and Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton Hand-built clay Inspiration piece Marla Deschenes One More Day Response piece Life will hand you the hardest of destinies And you will clench your jaw and steel your gaze And find …

 

dani harris and Ainsley Allmark

dani harris and Ainsley Allmark

 Ainsley Allmark Inspiration Piece dani harris a tree i once met Response   i don’t recall ever seeing …no…  ever meeting such a tree before or since . she had no branches on …

 

Ainsley Allmark and dani harris

Ainsley Allmark and dani harris

Ainsley Allmark Response dani harris i wonder what they say? Inspiration piece . in the quiet of the night when the Moon is full not a star can be seen because the Moon …

 

Andrena Zawinski and
Helen Lewis

Andrena Zawinski and
Helen Lewis

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

 

Annie Perconti and Amy Souza

Annie Perconti and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Acrylic and collage on panel Inspiration piece Blue By Annie Perconti Response . a daughters forgetful father cries liquor into tears the blue of his reflection holds her redemption . —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and …

 

Leyla Sarigol and Amy Souza

Leyla Sarigol and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece IV By Amy Souza Inspiration piece One thousand years from now above the Aegean Sea, two metal beasts collide, raining flesh and flames, the scorch of burning skin. Ashes of past …

 

Beth Homa and Marla Deschenes

Beth Homa and Marla Deschenes

Trust in Process Beth Homa Response Art is Not Conformity By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece Nimble hands of tiny stature Not restricted by the chains society will Later administer. As time passes Doubt replaces that …

 

Bridget Fahey and Lisa Nielsen

Bridget Fahey and Lisa Nielsen

Lisa Nielsen this is where you’ll find me inspiration piece: if the love I am looking for is looking for me, then why have I been traced by limbs …

 

Lisa Nielsen and Bridget Fahey

Lisa Nielsen and Bridget Fahey

BRIDGET FAHEY The Sentinel inspiration piece No Rapture Here Lisa Nielsen Response: You were supposed to be looking out for me Instead you moped around uprooting trees What kind of protector are you …

 

Lisa Kilhefner
and Claire Guyton

Lisa Kilhefner
and Claire Guyton

Claire Guyton Inspiration Piece Glaring By Lisa Kilhefner Response i’m swimming in the ocean of uproar, in my own disregard for her, in my two-sided-ness. i’m floating along a polished glass floor, over her …

 

Hildie S. Block and Sukia

Hildie S. Block and Sukia

“Yes, dear.” “Don’t start with me.” Randolph hooted “people” softly on his perch and scooted over a few inches on the 10 foot long bar.

 

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 …

 

Alisa Laska
and Brian MacDonald

Alisa Laska
and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Alisa Laska Response Hope is hard to find. It seems out of place here like an old, abandoned chair in a field of weeds. The tall grass ready …

 

Annie Perconti and Bobbie Troy

Annie Perconti and Bobbie Troy

Annie Perconti Response Reader and Adviser By Bobbie Troy Inspiration piece next to a twilighted church the face of a child Madonna appeared as an outline behind faded, flowered curtains the sign read Reader and …

 

Myfanwy Fox & Kapulco

Myfanwy Fox & Kapulco

Canopy Of Dreams by Kapulco (Inspiration Piece) Living by Myfanwy Fox (Response Piece) Beneath layered eons’ mulch: post holes, now filled with soil; evidence of humanity long since buried; structure destroyed by death watch larvae from …

 

Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Clairvoyance Inspiration Piece What the Girl Sees By Annmarie Lockhart Response . “There’s a girl in New York City, calls herself the human trampoline.”–Paul Simon . It’s been somewhere between forever …

 

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Omnipresent Response Ruminations By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece . Rumi asks: What is your life about anyway? Nothing but a struggle to be someone, Nothing but a running from your own silence. . freedom …

 

Jane Hulstrunk and Jewel Beth Davis

Jane Hulstrunk and Jewel Beth Davis

Jane Hulstrunk Response Prime Numbers With No End By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece “Nan’s gone, Jewel,” her sister Stephanie says on the phone. Gone. Cancer. The cells went crazy. Out …

 

Lauren B. Flax and Sukia

Lauren B. Flax and Sukia

Sukia Inspiration Piece Pantheon Lauren B. Flax Response Piece If this body is a temple then I worship at the Pantheon On my left shoulder, the huntress and a bag of quivers plucked …