Darice Jones and Tiffany Golden

Darice Jones and Tiffany Golden

Tiffany Golden Response Neither Here Nor There By Darice Jones Inspiration piece It was like transitions were booming in her ears in that way the first thunder of the season could …

 

Tiffany Golden and Darice Jones

Tiffany Golden and Darice Jones

Tiffany Golden “Forever Connected” Inspiration piece Cosmic Colors and Fire Songs By Darice Jones Response Davina and Monèt’s Spirits had come into being around the same time – way, way, way …

 

Dale Leffler and Jennifer Fendya

Dale Leffler and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece We Circle Words By Dale Leffler Response We circle, drawing lines of demarcation some cut straight to the heart of equivocation unsupported obtuse tangents deserve no attention others, right-angled …

 

Missy Lambert and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Missy Lambert and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Missy Lambert “Old Growth Fettered” Response (See video of Missy’s painting process here.) Braiding the Living By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Shocked in the reading of Braiding the Sweetgrass Grieved for the …

 

Leslie Grollman and Donna JT Smith

Leslie Grollman and Donna JT Smith

Leslie Grollman “Take Off” Response Rain Touched By Donna JT Smith Inspiration piece The drops tap on her shoulders puddlemuddling her toes, Still she dances in the rain where rosy garden grows. Sweet verdant vibrant …

 

Marisa Bevington and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Marisa Bevington and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Marisa Bevington Response Into the Bargain By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response I’ve got to ignore some spates of stupidity. It’ realistic to think grownups Should interact frequently with tykes, even if …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Marisa Bevington

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Marisa Bevington

Marisa Bevington Inspiration piece Folie à Deux By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response In friendship, sometimes, shared psychosis devastates All hope for normal function. Seemingly, interaction’s Hurt by shared delusional disorder. Psychosis remains A …

 

Linda Mitchell and
Jone Rush MacCulloch

Linda Mitchell and
Jone Rush MacCulloch

Jone Rush MacCulloch “Early Dawn” Inspiration piece Early Dawn By Linda Mitchell Response dreams whisper to wake before sunrise slipper shuffle to writing room coffee in hand to wake before sunrise word play, journal time coffee in …

 

Ash Martins and Madona Tyler LeBlanc

Ash Martins and Madona Tyler LeBlanc

Madona Tyler LeBlanc “Paper Marigolds, Rhizome Interior” Inspiration piece Unanswered Questions By Ash Martins Response Anne, honey, please let the dogs in the house? It’s raining buckets Don’t forget, call Maeve back Her wife’s chemo failed …

 

Angi Lewis and Donna JT Smith

Angi Lewis and Donna JT Smith

Donna JT Smith “Thoughtful Bunny” Inspiration piece Waiting By Angi Lewis Response Out the window all is white. I miss the light in spring the spread of green. dear Rabbit, teach me to sit and listen for …

 

Fernanda Valentino and
Jone Rush MacCulloch

Fernanda Valentino and
Jone Rush MacCulloch

Jone Rush MacCulloch “Glencoe, Scotland” Photograph Inspiration piece Fàilte By Fernanda Valentino Response Heavy clouds cascading Looming low, they skim And brush these emerald valleys With winter’s thick, cold kiss. Laden with burdens The storm clouds linger, …

 

Donna JT Smith and Leslie Grollman

Donna JT Smith and Leslie Grollman

Leslie Grollman “A Creation Myth” Inspiration piece Creation of the Myth By Donna JT Smith Response There was this extreme “kaboom!” like when a tree falls in the woods only hundreds of …

 

Donna JT Smith and Angi Lewis

Donna JT Smith and Angi Lewis

Donna JT Smith “Winter at the Lake” Watercolor Response Winter Memory By Angi Lewis Inspiration piece I am young, maybe eight- my brother and I walk to the lake alone. I put on my skates draw …

 

Madona Tyler LeBlanc and Ash Martins

Madona Tyler LeBlanc and Ash Martins

Madona Tyler LeBlanc “Syzygy” Watercolor and Ink Response Dancing in the Dark By Ash Martins Inspiration piece Parking lot stand-off Whose reverse lights flashed first here?   Winter’s pas de deux   —————————————————— Note: All of the art, …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Missy Lambert

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Missy Lambert

Missy Lambert paper with acrylics, oil, pastels and pencil Inspiration piece Gracefull By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Grace sweeps the sky and dives to earth Embracing inspiring and overflowing wide Lodges in hearts …

 

Tora Estep and Natascha Dea Burdeinei

Tora Estep and Natascha Dea Burdeinei

Tora Estep “The Harvest” Preparatory thumbnail sketch, graphite on paper Response We Roar By Natascha Dea Burdeinei Inspiration piece Rage battles disappointment; anger and frustration swirl and bubble up again. The scream …

 

Natascha Dea Burdeinei and Tora Estep

Natascha Dea Burdeinei and Tora Estep

Tora Estep “What Lies Beneath” Oil on Canvas Inspiration piece Natascha Dea Burdeinei Response The morphine push didn’t take long. One moment I was holding my lucid and sagacious 92-year-old uncle’s hand, …

 

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Response Regret to Desire By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece I keep measuring beats but the song is the same The water under the bridge is dark,‎ a brooding season …

 

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard “Contusa” Inspiration piece I‎ Felt Something, For A Minute By Lisa Nielsen Response Me half smiling, layering out my scars like pinafores,‎ You leave your fingerprints on me. Go …

 

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Amy Souza Response Grief Is Part I By Ash Martins Inspiration piece Time slows down, stops entirely, then somehow starts again in the moments you transition from this life to your next Grief is so unbelievably heavy It …

 

Gary Hewitt and Jonathan Ottke

Gary Hewitt and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke “Two Stars have a conversation” Inspiration piece Orion’s Boote By Gary Hewitt Response “I am the brightest.” Alnilam raised a nebulous eye at the unwarranted disturbance. Who the hell invited …

 

Leslie Grollman and Rusty Lynn

Leslie Grollman and Rusty Lynn

Rusty Lynn The Great Spirit Is Everywhere Inspiration piece After Accretion By Leslie Grollman Response                         Little Rover beeps to himself …

 

Amy Souza and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza Response August Strokes By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Slipping into the liquid aqua glassed pool These are the days of leisure swims Summer season — autumn of life The swish …

 

Heather Hartman and Amy Souza

Heather Hartman and Amy Souza

Heather Hartman Response Orbit By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Everywhere is here and there and nowhere you can be at once Like those signs with seven arrows pointing every which way Big town – Small town – The moon – You …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jennifer Fendya

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Lief By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Happiness, after all, buds when verisimilitudes and truth form Matching pairs, when most weet of feelings become integrated, When both straths and …