Category Archive: SPARK 17

Work from SPARK 17: September 12 – 21, 2012

Gabby Holden
and Hildie S. Block

Gabby Holden
and Hildie S. Block

Gabby Holden Response (Click for larger image) N.O.M.E. By Hildie Block Inspiration piece “That was the best game we’ve ever had!” Her eyes were shining as the setting sun …

 

Charles Waters
and Sandy Coleman

Charles Waters
and Sandy Coleman

Sandy Coleman Inspiration piece The Color Spectrum By Charles Waters Response Galumphing in the wild after morning showers An elephant gets sucked into a rainbow colored vortex. Mutation begins … Ears: Fuchsia …

 

Tyson West and Rusty Lynn

Tyson West and Rusty Lynn

Rusty Lynn Response ORIGINAL SIN SIGNALS Tyson West If Jesus was god and knew everything Then why didn’t he tell us some parable About cosmic background radiation Left over from the Big …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Nicholas Clark

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Nicholas Clark

Nicholas Clark Collage Inspiration piece   His face By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response The eyes lure me in like a fisherman Eyes on the line in the sea as the face emerges from …

 

Cecilia Reid Driscoll
and Brian MacDonald

Cecilia Reid Driscoll
and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece   Measure By Cecilia Reid Driscoll Response Where are you in the quotidian gold? A pattern of dreams and acts has brought you here.   Adjacent angles, curves conjoined, overlapping shadows. Scattered leaves.   You used to …

 

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg Letting Go Response   Gen X By Grace Burns Inspiration piece We are masters of multitasking We book double book triple book our days Every waking second is aptly assigned We are rulers over time, supreme schedulers We cling to these false powers Convincing ourselves that …

 

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Judy Weinberg Inspiration piece   Grace Burns Response Empty Nest mother from life giver and nurturer to teacher and advisor to her children embracing expectations receiving with outstretched arms hoping not just to fly but to soar —————————————————— Note: All …

 

Hildie S. Block
and Gabby Holden

Hildie S. Block
and Gabby Holden

Gabby Holden Inspiration piece In That Sleep of Death Hildie S. Block Response “Shhh!” “Oh, whatever.  She sleeps like the dead.” “You’re horrible” “OK, so you totally should have come last night!” My eyes …

 

Nicholas Clark and Laura Shovan

Nicholas Clark and Laura Shovan

La Epifania Mojada (Click link for WAV file) By Nicholas Clark Response Feel What I’m Singing Found Poem By Laura Shovan Inspiration piece Someone asked me the other day, they said, …

 

Steve Safaty and Tony Joyce

Steve Safaty and Tony Joyce

Steve Safaty Response Child’s Diary Entry Tony Joyce Inspiration Piece I went to see mummy in hospital She seemed happy, but I miss her Hospitals smell funny Mummy had tubes in her Daddy said …

 

Brenda Moguez and Brian MacDonald

Brenda Moguez and Brian MacDonald

Inspiration Piece by Brian MacDonald   Sweetest Dreams by Brenda Moguez Tell me a story of magical mice, princesses a fairy, a wand, a castle in a land far away with a …

 

Leah Sturgis and Sandy Coleman

Leah Sturgis and Sandy Coleman

  Sandy Coleman — Inspiration Piece Captured Fire By Leah Sturgis Response He never figured how he sighted the campfire. “Remember, Scott, history degrees end up at Starbucks.  Computer Science degrees …

 

Vicki VanArsdale and Brian MacDonald

Vicki VanArsdale and Brian MacDonald

  Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece   The Dance Vicki VanArsdale Response   Time stood still ……………………One afternoon on a crisp, fall day ……………………leaves crunched the muted colors ……………………on cobblestones took center stage ……………………and the sun’s glow ‘til darkness came ……………………formed shadows behind …

 

Lisa Lipkind Leibow and Julia Trimboli

Lisa Lipkind Leibow and Julia Trimboli

  Julia Trimboli Basement Specimens oil on canvas, 2012 Inspiration Piece FOND OF FAUNA:Webisode #2 By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response Hello to all of my YouTube fans out there. Welcome to the second …

 

Neil Ellman and Brian MacDonald

Neil Ellman and Brian MacDonald

  Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece PHOENIX By Neil Ellman Response   Apparition in fire consumes   chimeric flame communes   ghosts of the past exhumed   from pyre to flight resumed. ——————————————— Note:  All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs …

 

Joanna Suzanne Lee and Ray Sharp

Joanna Suzanne Lee and Ray Sharp

Joanna Suzanne Lee viper inspiration piece Ray Sharp response La Grande Roue (The Ferris Wheel)   He gives the wheel a spin, thoughts a billion miles away, above the waltz of planets,   on the rim, …

 

Ray Sharp and Joanna Suzanne Lee

Ray Sharp and Joanna Suzanne Lee

Ray Sharp Dancers, Buenos Aires inspiration piece Joanna Suzanne Lee response the third minute this poem is not about love. it is a waking from dreams where i walked alone. it is the song we should’ve danced that …

 

Mary Lucas and Melissa Pasanen

Mary Lucas and Melissa Pasanen

  Photo by:  Melissa Pasanen A Symphony of Home By Mary Lucas Squawk-snap. The woman pulls the day’s mail from the faded black box at the curb then pushes it …

 

Ana Goncalves and Jewel Beth Davis

Ana Goncalves and Jewel Beth Davis

Ana Goncalves God in One Response   The High and Mighty By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece   The throne room was filled with angels, A-List biblical stars and cherubim. It looked more …

 

Ana Goncalves and Linda Neas

Ana Goncalves and Linda Neas

Ana Goncalves Restore Response   Evokes pleasure Surrounded by treasure   Embrace change Arousing taste   Nature talks Behind stalks   Trees breathe While you sleep   Beauty sees Inside trees   Earth restores In all doors   Leftovers By Linda Neas Inspiration Piece ———————————– Note: All of the art, writing, …

 

Pharoah Bolding and Helen Lewis

Pharoah Bolding and Helen Lewis

Pharoah Bolding Response A Little Excitement By Helen Lewis Inspiration piece I blame my mother-in-law, Amelia. If she hadn’t been visiting us when my husband Greg staggered into the kitchen …

 

Sandy Coleman and Laura Shovan

Sandy Coleman and Laura Shovan

Sandy Coleman “Elsewhere” Response The Map By Laura Shovan Inspiration piece She emptied her son’s backpack after the bus put up its wheelchair lift and drove away, after she rolled him up the ramp …

 

Jane Hulstrunk and Nikolas Lotze

Jane Hulstrunk and Nikolas Lotze

Jane Hulstrunk Response   Nikolas Lotze Inspiration Old Man’s Refuse   In this picture, an old man; his demeanor frail and outlook grim. His journeys stored in lines etched across his face, cracks that …

 

Anthony Valade and Robert McAuliffe

Anthony Valade and Robert McAuliffe

Robert McAuliffe Inspiration piece Electric Epiphany By Anthony Valade Response There is a reason for them to create. Attached their hands with string as I’m rigged into the storm, Closed their …

 

Channie Greenberg
and Jane Hulstrunk

Channie Greenberg
and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration Channie Greenberg Response Generations of Morning Glories: Dialoging a Changing Mother/Daughter Relationship   Quick maturity, in motherhood, allows for twining habit, also, attractive blooms, As well as for a …