Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard Myra’s Niche Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Still Processing Response Mangled and incontinent with leprous bedsores, you are sure this will be estrangement’s undoing. I can watch you suffer for …
Rebecca Smolen and Diane Mayr
Rebecca Smolen and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr It’s Always About Man Inspiration piece Rebecca Smolen The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Response The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Food and drink within Apples are quite the …
Lisa Kilhefner and Alyscia Cunningham
Lisa Kilhefner and Alyscia Cunningham
Lisa Kilhefner Response Alyscia Cunningham Inspiration piece A Woman I Am Unique natural curve, The moon strong urge, Our monthly red cycle, Make moody feelings psycho. Body fit for birth, Creating life here on earth, Because …
KJ Hannah Greenberg and Nancy Ramsey
KJ Hannah Greenberg and Nancy Ramsey
Enigma by KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Enigma by Nancy Ramsey Inspiration Piece Every line I write Hides more Every word Another brick Each expression Hides me further Emotion cloaked in Confusion. Note: All of the art, writing, and …
Nancy Ramsey and KJ Hannah Greenberg
Nancy Ramsey and KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg-Sunset Inspiration Piece Orange by Nancy Ramsey Response Orange dips between the rise. Neutral back Drops to layers. Yellow, blue streak. Reflect back for review. Sky sees itself A tempered view. Note: All of the …
Diane Mayr and Rebecca Smolen
Diane Mayr and Rebecca Smolen
Diane Mayr The Reason Why Response Rebecca Smolen Van Gogh Could See It Inspiration piece Van Gogh Could See It If you were to really look at a fading sun disintegrating into the horizon, its’ …
Jonathan Ottke
and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Jonathan Ottke
and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Jonathan Ottke “Memories” Response Bottles By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece In my mind I keep a cupboard full of bottles on a painted shelf Each one holds a memory. I made these bottles …
Darice Jones and Brigitte Nowers
Darice Jones and Brigitte Nowers
Brigitte Nowers Inspiration Piece Inkling By Darice Jones Response There were sparkly little insights she had now that she didn’t then At this point, they seemed to tether her spirit to …
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine “Abandoned Power Plant” Inspiration piece Cleanup By Robert Haydon Jones Response Jimmy O’Hara started reading to sixth graders in a rundown school in a rundown city, nine miles up …
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine “Blank Slate” Response Doris By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece NB: The story is true. The names are fictitious. It was a railroad flat in Chelsea. You opened the …
Marie Kelly and Lisa Kilhefner
Marie Kelly and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Splay By Marie Kelly Response membrane of memory: cells cast together from a sense of urgency, muscle-memory, soul-memory memory of hand on throat, abduction of thighs, couldn’t wait for timetables …
Marilyn Ackerman and Adam Cornford
Marilyn Ackerman and Adam Cornford
Marilyn Ackerman Response Geysir By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece Under far cumulus cliffs in a circle of bone soil one vapor plume leans and twists Brief white spurts tease with collapse until ghosts boil ascending Peaked hoods and shoulders warp …
Adam Cornford and Marilyn Ackerman
Adam Cornford and Marilyn Ackerman
Marilyn Ackerman Inspiration piece Tree Farmers By Adam Cornford Response These are the true tree farmers they do not plant plantations uniform grids of pine and fir like power-poles in rows …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Nancy Ramsey
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Nancy Ramsey
KJ Hannah Greenberg “Begin” Response Begin By Nancy Ramsey Inspiration piece The hope of beginnings Is it’s own addictive drug. Seductive promise lures Attention onward To the next big thing. Beguiling with her lies- Come, look at …
Nancy Ramsey
and KJ Hannah Greenberg
Nancy Ramsey
and KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg “Social Pressure” Inspiration Piece Harmony By Nancy Ramsey Response Bright lights, Magenta boarders, A diversity of greens- The innocent marker lines of children. The city is my living room, She said. And why choose …
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
MM Panas “That Ship Has Sailed” Inspiration piece Eternities By JoAnn Moore Response Drown me blue in your depthless sky, soft as the incoming fog. Ebb me full of salt until I find rhythm in the …
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Ascension Takes Time. And Practice” Response The Composition of Expectations By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece I can’t take on gravity while smiling rancid thoughts. Floating thru your …
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “Palettes 1 and 2” Inspiration piece Survival of the Fittest By Lisa Nielsen Response The art of tuning out Turns a heart to pulp And makes a sin of dance the …
Shaune McCarthy and Jewel Beth Davis
Shaune McCarthy and Jewel Beth Davis
Shaune McCarthy “If You’re Going to Help, Help” Response Jesus at the Rite Aid By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece I walk through the aisles of the local Rite Aid. It …
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas “Dancing with Red” Acrylic on paper, size: 30” x 22″ Response January Saturday …(or Ode to Candlemas) By JoAnn Moore Inspiration piece Despite the recent rains one of the backyard cherries holds fast …
Lauren Carney and Kamika Cooper
Lauren Carney and Kamika Cooper
Lauren Carney “Garden of One” ink, paint, pen, and pencil mixed media Response One Woman By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece I am one woman the one who won your love and captured your …
Tora Estep and Pippa Possible
Tora Estep and Pippa Possible
Tora Estep, “Abandoned,” charcoal, pastel, and collage on paper Response Pippa Possible, “Nervously, Tenderly,” erasure technique and paper cutting, using pages of a vintage novel; chair, acrylic paint, sticky tape …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Susan Burton
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Susan Burton
Susan Burton “Roses” Inspiration piece Breathless Roses By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Tired, dipping, petals starved The roses begin to leave Too much sun, deprived of water The swords of time, a time to …
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Bluet No. 665 By Ray Sharp Response You came to me, yellow butterfly, flitting the deep blue sky of my golden summer. Love bloomed a thousand dandelions. You grew sunflowers and …
Amy Souza and Julia Laxer
Amy Souza and Julia Laxer
Amy Souza “I Wrapped You in Cellophane to Protect My Heart” Response Fossils By Julia Laxer Inspiration piece fossils found in: the abdomen of every woman the roman candle of a man. a psychotic …