Category Archive: SPARK 55

Work from SPARK 55: May 16–26, 2023

02 Jun

Tora Estep and Andrea Dye

Tora Estep and Andrea Dye

Tora Estep “Tribute to Lady Day” 18 in. x 24 in., acrylic on watercolor paper Response To Be a Singer By Andrea Dye Inspiration piece If I didn’t make myself cringe that …

 
By tora
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01 Jun

Betty Nichols and Amy Moffitt

Betty Nichols and Amy Moffitt

Betty Nichols Response Middle By Amy Moffitt Inspiration piece They don’t mention the lists… the fluttering, cluttering memorials to obligations and dreams, the false hope of control… they don’t say you’ll be chasing and …

 
By Amy Souza
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01 Jun

Eve Hyde and Amy Souza

Eve Hyde and Amy Souza

Eve Hyde Response Time and Its Kin By Amy Souza Inspiration piece High noon, no shadow: How you know when a duel begins A street lamp at midnight: How you know …

 
By Amy Souza
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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 …

 
By DJ The Griot
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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 …

 
By DJ The Griot
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31 May

Dale Leffler and Jonathan Ottke

Dale Leffler and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke “Matteo” Inspiration piece Mateo Muchacho Words By Dale Leffler Response He waits for you like a lover attentively sad on the couch. His eyes convey his longing, loneliness, as his shoulders slouch. Never …

 
By Amy Souza
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31 May

Marcela Kogan and Jennifer Fendya

Marcela Kogan and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Footsteps By Marcela Kogan Response I spend most of my days alone peering out people’s legs from the wrought-iron window of my daylight basement room.  The …

 
By Amy Souza
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31 May

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Amy Souza Response Listed Sh*t By Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece A few months ago, I wrote down all the things that are wrong with me. The notion came after a particularly …

 
By Amy Souza
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31 May

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley Response Home Not Home By Amy Souza Inspiration piece A childhood surrounded by water Mayflower offspring, Azorean pioneers I didn’t belong (or did I?) to the city Of cobblestone streets with Widow’s …

 
By Amy Souza
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31 May

Marisa Bevington and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Marisa Bevington and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Marisa Bevington Response Breeze By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece The Breeze like tiny wings lifts wisps of hair on end and Sips the heat from sun screened arms As the sea breathes …

 
By Amy Souza
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Kathleen Finn Jordan
31 May

Andrea Dye and Tora Estep

Andrea Dye and Tora Estep

Tora Estep Inspiration piece The Nocturnal Monk By Andrea Dye Response Sleepless nights led Monk outdoors to learn what the sun may never know. Feeling lost for his place in …

 
By Andrea Dye
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30 May

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marisa Bevington

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marisa Bevington

Marisa Bevington Inspiration piece Does She Step Out? By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Sleeping yurts dot the land plane As inhabitants step out Wondrous colors and sweet light stain All looking forward, looking …

 
By kjordan466
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and Marisa Bevington
29 May

Amy Moffitt and Betty Nichols

Amy Moffitt and Betty Nichols

Betty Nichols Inspiration piece Old Dominion Drive By Amy Moffitt Response The last time I drove this road, I was singing at the top of my lungs to the full moon, Singing …

 
By amymoffitt42
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26 May

Jewel Beth Davis
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

Jewel Beth Davis
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece Colored Arrows By Jewel Beth Davis Response The archers lined up with their bows, their faces grim. The arrows flew through the air with feathers comprised …

 
By Amy Souza
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26 May

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jewel Beth Davis

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jewel Beth Davis

KJ Hannah Greenberg Response My Small Skinny Self By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece A film-like scene plays in my mind repeatedly. I see my mother as she was then …

 
By Amy Souza
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and Jewel Beth Davis