SPARK

Ash Martins and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece A New Kind Of Playground By Ash Martins Response Dicky couldn’t wait for bedtime. He even drummed up a couple of ideas to see if …

Jennifer Fendya Response One Eye Open By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Ultimately we all grieve alone The pain of seclusion Historical lack Nothing feels good California’s on fire and Losses just keep coming I have accomplished …

Shannon Brown and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke Inspiration piece Pippa and Gerald, by Shannon Brown Response George: Hello, everyone, and welcome to Reality Watch, the podcast where we bring you the reality behind reality …

Lisa Kilhefner and Stefanie A. Shilling

Lisa Kilhefner Response She Will Sing By Stefanie A. Shilling Inspiration piece speak not of ruby rivers coursing through veins they said dare not light a candle in a darkened room hold your breath while they …

Stefanie A. Shilling and Lisa Kilhefner

Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece How Far, How Deep By Stefanie A. Shilling Response my naked eye is blessed to see so many stars an umbrella over me there are countless more beyond my sight knowing they …

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Betty Nichols

Betty Nichols Inspiration Piece Geyser By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Deep in the sparkling sea depths – a surge Concussion of sound and thrusts upward fly And life soon emerges in a …

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Ash Martins “Recurrence” Digital oil on canvas Inspiration piece North Coast Overlook By Amy Souza Response Ribbons of azure sky Float on a painterly tide While blackfish jump into the horizon Of an everlasting ocean Hint …

Susan Hillyard and Jenny Forrester

Susan Hillyard Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece Letting someone help you gives them the power to lie, cheat, or steal the experience you’re letting them help you with. But we’re supposed …

Trouble Mandeson
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

Trouble Mandeson Response After Defeating a Dragon By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Rufus ran his index finger over the long scar on his thigh. He had been fortunate to have …

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Trouble Mandeson

Trouble Mandeson Inspiration piece Food Forest “Friends” By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response “Arayan, we have it all!” “Aviano, just pass the butter.” “No, really, sister, look out our window. We’ve a food …

Jenny Forrester and Susan Hillyard

Susan Hillyard Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response Kick dust in their faces, keep your head down or up, your ears back or forward, stay alert. They’re always coming for …

Ash Martins and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke Inspiration piece Diving in December By Ash Martins Response Frank smiled as he watched everyone. The log cabin buzzed with energy during winter break. Have you ever seen …

Jonathan Ottke and Ash Martins

Jonathan Ottke “Day at the Beach” Response Time Stop By Ash Martins Inspiration piece Seagulls catch waves of Wind blows fast and hot and dry Air smells of wild mint and sea so …

Kamika Cooper and Amy Souza

Amy Souza photography Inspiration piece Overcast By Kamika Cooper Response “What are you doing here?” Gretchen sat cross-legged, making swirls in the sand with her fingers. She had been sitting peacefully at …

Lisa Kilhefner and Paula Lantz

Paula Lantz 50”h x 40” acrylic and collage on canvas Inspiration piece Lisa Kilhefner Response I’ll race you to where the night sky meets the waves, where cerulean melts the moon. We …

Robert Haydon Jones
and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Me and Mary Lou By Robert Haydon Jones Response I want to tell you how Mary Lou and I got together but I warn you this …

Stephanie Ross and
Stefanie A. Shilling

Stephanie Ross Response The Magician’s Box By Stefanie A. Shilling Inspiration piece climb in lay yourself down stretch time stops in the magician’s box outside, the shiny tops spin reflections glimmer bouncing lights then comes the first cut make …

Timmy McKay and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Timmy McKay “Seeds Sleep” 8″x10″ Acrylic on Cedar Response Earthy Lapis By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece The seeds sleep Closeted in cold, damp soil Recovering strength sapped by red-hot days Of summer sun snorting …

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard “Homelessness” Inspiration piece Not the Blight You’re Thinking of By Lisa Nielsen Response i watch your grueling hunchbacked body meandering side to side while frustrated commuters twist about to …

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard “ReEmergence” Response scenes from an italian restaurant By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece you’ve grown smaller from last I saw you, he is larger than your prize that house you coveted has bars he takes …

Diane Mayr and Cristal Brawley

Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Stability Not Stabile-ity By Diane Mayr Response “The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning. Familiarization is necessary.” — Alexander Calder It looked …

Erika Cleveland and Channie Greenberg

Erika Cleveland “Your Dog was Dead. You, Likewise, Were Almost Dead.” Response Another Day By Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece Minute upon minute, the days creep. It is not so much that looking …

Channie Greenberg and Erika Cleveland

Erika Cleveland “Things Weighing on My Mind” Inspiration piece The Weighty Decades of Yehudis Blau By Channie Greenberg Response Yehudis sighed as she pulled at her cuticle. When she was a …

Amy Souza and Jenny Forrester

Amy Souza Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece My brother and I loved Johnny Cash, singing Ring of Fire. Loud. Over and over. It’s decades later now. We grew apart in …

Jenny Forrester and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response I wish you would’ve listened while I was water and you were sand. It hurt to fly into the center alone, to …