Category Archive: SPARK 18

Work from SPARK 18: November 30 – December 7, 2012

Uma Gowrishankar and Hildie Block

Uma Gowrishankar and Hildie Block

Uma Gowrishankar Dream  ( acrylic and mixed media on paper ) Response Just a Bad Night  By Hildie Block  Inspiration  “But you said you didn’t want to,” she looked alarmed.  “You said …

 

Elizabeth Stelling and Tyson West

Elizabeth Stelling and Tyson West

    ‘Touched by the Hood’ by Elizabeth Stelling Response Inspiration by Tyson West NEGRO SPRITUALS SUNG BY A GROUNDSKEEPER I Deep burry booming though his bass Rattled the walls of the flimsy …

 

Tyson West and Elizabeth Stelling

Tyson West and Elizabeth Stelling

  ‘Heart’ by Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Response by Tyson West Psst… Hey Sailor, Up Here. I Port of Call—Seattle If old soldiers never die, What happens to old sailors? Sea breezes never run …

 

Quentin Paquette and Kasey Coyle

Quentin Paquette and Kasey Coyle

Ghosts <click to play audio file> Kasey Coyle — Ghosts Inspiration Quentin Paquette — Visitation Response Somehow, being on the road makes it more likely, particularly at night on an otherwise …

 

Margaret Mair and Tyler Brewington

Margaret Mair and Tyler Brewington

Margaret Mair, UnderWater, Acrylic on canvas Response Hawaii, by Tyler Brewington Inspiration piece In the language there is life, in the language there is death. I wanted an ambitious …

 

RJ Walker and Paula Lifschey

RJ Walker and Paula Lifschey

A Painting created by Paula Lifschey Inspiration Piece   The Appange Written By RJ Walker (Response Piece) In this corner we have the mean green machine himself. Weighing in at 100 grams, The …

 

Brian Eugenio Herrera and Brenna Crotty

Brian Eugenio Herrera and Brenna Crotty

Brian Eugenio Herrera The Bird (Magazine Doodle) response   Brenna Crotty Bird inspiration   Fortunately, by the time Grace gets to it, the carcass no longer resembles a turkey, which is good, since her …

 

Terah Van Dusen and Helen Lewis

Terah Van Dusen and Helen Lewis

One Red Elephant By Helen Lewis Inspiration Piece     Good Little Woman By Terah Van Dusen Response piece   The armpit of Humboldt County. That’s what I’d call that place. And I mean …

 

Anthony Valade and Rebecca Parker

Anthony Valade and Rebecca Parker

Shared Piece by Rebecca Parker:   Don’t you want to touch me? (Top) Response Piece and Picture (above) by Anthony Valade:   Dismembered (Bottom)     Don’t you want to touch me? Don’t you want …

 

Kristine Conley-Brockie and Nick Lotze

Kristine Conley-Brockie and Nick Lotze

  Kristine Conley-Brockie Response Nick Lotze Inspiration piece Antiseptic Sunshine November 22, 2010 December 1983 saw a terrible crash, a ten car accident caught on tape by passerby’s turning disaster into a …

 

Irene Plax and Linda Neas

Irene Plax and Linda Neas

Reflections of Peace Linda Neas Inspiration Piece   Nice Ink Irene Plax Response   “Nice ink.” “Thanks, it’s the Libra sign.” “Yeah, I know. My brother’s birthday was September 30th. He was a Libra.” “Did he …

 

Irene Plax and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

Irene Plax and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

Linda M. Rhinehart Neas – Response Deck the Halls (Photo collage – Nikon Coolpix 4300 and photo enhanced with Gimp) Irene Plax – Inspiration …

 

Nicholas Lotze and Kristi Conley

Nicholas Lotze and Kristi Conley

Kristi Conley Inspiration piece Nicholas Lotze Response piece Just at the end of the fall, a forest covered in banks of snow and the earth is dark in its serenity; everything here …

 

Helen Lewis and Cynthia Pailet

Helen Lewis and Cynthia Pailet

Untitled By Cynthia Pailet Inspiration piece   Meditation on a mountain: five haiku By Helen Lewis Response   i sunrise paints the slopes in semi-precious colours pearlescent with ice   ii the wind carries the tang of fresh snow, sends …

 

Helen Lewis and Terah Van Dusen

Helen Lewis and Terah Van Dusen

Arms Wide Open By Helen Lewis Response   A Fortune Teller Once Told Me (True Story)  By Terah Van Dusen Inspiration piece Several years ago I had a psychic reading Not at one …