Author: DJ The Griot

Visual stroryteller, spiritual Griot, dream interpreter, lover of life and humanity, writer/director of films, world traveler, committed to growth, afro-futurist.

31 May

Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist “The Download” Inspiration piece In the Time of You As Me By Darice Jones Response The day I accepted that you were me, and I you The path broadened Power …

 
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31 May

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee The Artist Untitled Pencil Drawing Response 15 Horizons in Ultra Space By Darice Jones Inspiration piece These two beautiful beings prefer to be called my daughters In all their manifold non-binary …

 
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10 Mar

Quinzee the Artist and Darice M. Jones

Quinzee the Artist and Darice M. Jones

Quinzee the Artist Untitled Pencil Response Black Space By Darice M. Jones Inspiration piece My people are the cool dark vast The clap and clank of tom drum and tambourine across time and interstellar truth We rhythm …

 
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10 Mar

Darice M. Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Darice M. Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee the Artist “Aunti” Graphic art Inspiration piece Emergence By Darice M. Jones Response I came forth from the deep, dark, cool blue(s), purples, and teals of an asylum orb up in …

 
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08 Mar

Darice M. Jones and Shaun Jones

Darice M. Jones and Shaun Jones

Shaun Jones Acrylic on canvas and collage Inspiration piece Slay By Darice M. Jones Response Sometimes I have to adjust My spiritual eyes To know what I am looking at Whether the suffering in …

 
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08 Mar

Shaun Jones and Darice M. Jones

Shaun Jones and Darice M. Jones

By Shaun Jones “First Rite” Response Mohair By Darice M. Jones Inspiration piece My name is Bimi and I am co-leader of global Rights of Passage ceremony on the Earth’s parent …

 
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08 Mar

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/videoplayback.mp4 Sarah Pizer-Bush “Yesterday Project” Video collage & voiceover Inspiration piece Me, Myself, and Tomorrow By Darice Jones Response Who would have thought that we’d be here, inside a whole new way of …

 
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08 Mar

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush Watercolor on canvas Response Missing Daughters of the Movement By Darice Jones Inspiration piece Latasha with the big amber eyes and glowing almost-black brown-colored skin descendant of intersecting activisms of remixed …

 
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05 Mar

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Lighting Rituals, Photo/Graphic” Response The Problem with Birthdays By Darice Jones Inspiration piece “Why do you think it is that some people really don’t like their birthdays?” My work BFF …

 
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05 Mar

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice M. Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice M. Jones

Darice M. Jones “That’s a Stretch” Enhanced photography Inspiration piece Before the Bloom By Sarah Pizer-Bush Response stretching covers across body seeking comfort seeking warmth now is the time to pull all the way in divine …

 
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14 Dec

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Something Swirling Within” Response 44 Falls to Rapture By Darice Jones Inspiration iece 422 Falls To Rapture Eight times a year since the day she was born Something within would swirl …

 
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14 Dec

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Together Not Alone” Inspiration piece Healing Time By Darice Jones Response There is kind of healing that happens in solitude Just you and the breath Just you and the precious stone Just …

 
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11 Dec

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 …

 
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11 Dec

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 …

 
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01 Jun

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones “Sharing This Space With You” Graphic pixel play Response Reflections at the End of a School Year By Sarah Pizer-Bush Inspiration piece We sit together and remember precious moments that …

 
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01 Jun

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Retreat” Inspiration piece Beyond Shapes Like Globes By Darice Jones Response We sent our elder’s souls into the bodies of small furry animals as a way to observe the …

 
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01 Jun

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush “Ritual” Response The New Elements Cloak By Darice Jones Inspiration piece I kept bending. You were on a bender Drinking my light like it was Facundo Paraiso and coke I mistook the …

 
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01 Jun

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones

Darice Jones “My Echo” Inspiration piece Blues Diary 2022 By Sarah Pizer-Bush Response Spent winter months cloaked in blues again. So many feelings suppressed. Sediment. Layers of loneliness, grief, rage, and …

 
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08 Mar

Darice M. Jones and Tora Estep

Darice M. Jones and Tora Estep

Tora Estep Oil on canvas Inspiration piece Earthen-Colored Vibes and Futurescapes By Darice Jones Response Bing! Ring! Ding! Hummmmm! Bing! Ring! Ding! Hummmmm! Bop, on pop, on bop, bop, bop. Tap, tip, tap. …

 
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08 Mar

Jennifer Fendya and Darice Jones

Jennifer Fendya and Darice Jones

Darice Jones “Heat Before Spring” Inspiration piece Forgotten Hope for Tomorrow By Jennifer Fendya Response We had a blast though how is it ………we’d forgotten to put money where our mouths caught fire We kissed this park deserted tongues …

 
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08 Mar

Darice Jones and Jennifer Fendya

Darice Jones and Jennifer Fendya

Darice Jones “Return to You” Response Pantoum for My Pandemic Partner By Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece I really saw you for the first time when I had no other place to …

 
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10 Sep

Darice Jones and Stephanie Ross

Darice Jones and Stephanie Ross

Stephanie Ross Response Paper By Darice Jones Inspiration piece I made myself thin, malleable and lightweight The shape of some happiness that little kids find while they’re sniffing their crayons A piece of paper with …

 
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10 Sep

Stephanie Ross and Darice Jones

Stephanie Ross and Darice Jones

Stephanie Ross Chrysanthemums in a sumi-e style Inspiration piece Portal Pink By Darice Jones Response In earth year, 60,000 BC, chocolate colored earthlings (our ancestors – and yours ) were busy …

 
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09 Mar

Darice M. Jones and Anya Drapkin

Darice M. Jones and Anya Drapkin

Anya Drapkin “Rain Dance” Ink & crayon on paper Response Piqued on Ashby By Darice M. Jones Inspiration Piece Ayele heard the “bop, bop, bop” of the drums as she drove by From …

 
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08 Mar

Anya Drapkin and Darice M. Jones

Anya Drapkin and Darice M. Jones

Anya Drapkin “Nesting” Inspiration piece Leaping Through Elements of You By Darice M. Jones Response Limbic Ikande was a curious African child born the heart of the often sunny but much …

 
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