Monthly Archives: May 2011

Kapulco & Myfanwy Fox

Kapulco & Myfanwy Fox

Rain Lances Roiling Darkness by Kapulco (Response Piece) Stormy Skies by Myfanwy Fox (Inspiration piece) Rain lances roiling darkness dawn cannot penetrate; sleet scours tiles, savages crannies, rattles my foundations. Trapped, penned, my imagination – I Wish … upon …

 

Sandy Coleman and
Annmarie Lockhart

Sandy Coleman and
Annmarie Lockhart

Sandy Coleman Moonlight Lady Collage on canvas Response Waxing and Waning By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece: crescent moon on a clear-sky night she shines center stage in front of a deep dark velvet curtain with a handful …

 

Donna Gagnon Pugh and Helen Whittaker

Donna Gagnon Pugh and Helen Whittaker

Helen Whittaker Untitled Inspiration * Donna Gagnon Pugh Were I That Cow Response A photograph hangs above our fireplace, ponderous in a frame far too ornate for the subject matter. Sun dried, …

 

Kristi Conley and Lisa Eldridge

Kristi Conley and Lisa Eldridge

Kristi Conley Response Hard Numbers by Lisa Eldridge Inspiration piece I was waiting in the express line at Hot Nuts and Elegant Foodstuffs. The store still has that name, …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Amy Souza

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Amy Souza

Amy Souza acylic and caran d’ache on paper Inspiration Piece Birthscape By Kathleen Finn Jorda Response Bubbles on a summer day running through my mind Faces of delighted children lollipop wild and …

 

Shangrila Willy and Kristi Conley

Shangrila Willy and Kristi Conley

Kristi Conley Inspiration Piece Shangrila Willy Response Piece Untitled Even the spotted and speckled tree — hard gnarls and knots rising from white land like kneaded dough that’s lost its yeast and been bitten to holes like cheese, pleated …

 

Gabriel Shanks and Lauren Flax

Gabriel Shanks and Lauren Flax

“Blue Ridge” by Lauren Flax (Inspiration Piece) “Transcontinentalism” by Gabriel Shanks (Response Piece) Weeks into our last war, on a redeye to London. Dawn, the ocean and sky. Clouds shaped like …

 

Amanda C. Brainerd and Annmarie Lockhart

Amanda C. Brainerd and Annmarie Lockhart

Amanda C. Brainerd Response piece Waxing and Waning by Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece crescent moon on a clear-sky night she shines center stage in front of a deep dark velvet curtain with a handful …

 

Helen Whittaker and Frank Gibson

Helen Whittaker and Frank Gibson

Frank Gibson Untitled Inspiration piece * Helen Whittaker The first leaf of autumn Response i Phaedra the wood nymph sings and dances, showering the glade with rose petals. She is naked apart from …

 

Helen Whittaker and Donna Gagnon Pugh

Helen Whittaker and Donna Gagnon Pugh

Helen Whittaker Untitled Response * Donna Gagnon Pugh Things We Should Know Inspiration piece In one old photograph — 1930s black faded into 21st century white — a little girl smiles …

 

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg Photograph Inspiration Piece Life With My BFFs We were empty vessels eager to be filled with life’s abundant pleasures. How naive we were not to realize that sorrow must accompany joy. We …

 

Nancy Claeys and Annmarie Lockhart

Nancy Claeys and Annmarie Lockhart

Inspiration Piece: Waxing and Waning by Annmarie Lockhart Response Piece: Suede Sky by Nancy Claeys crescent moon on a clear-sky night she shines center stage in front of a …

 

Linda M. Rhinehart Neas and Lauren Flax

Linda M. Rhinehart Neas and Lauren Flax

Inspiration Piece: Blue Ridge by Lauren Flax Response: Sophia’s Lament by Linda M. Rhinehart Neas At the first Light, you appeared – Bearer of the Morning Star …