Monthly Archives: October 2010

Tom Lewis and BR Belletryst

Tom Lewis and BR Belletryst

BR Belletryst Photograph Inspiration piece La nuance qui a siffle ses yeux By Tom Lewis Response The nuance that whistled its eyes Crossed the bell shade That night. Time was delayed. Passions like a …

 

Urmilla Khanna and BR Belletryst

Urmilla Khanna and BR Belletryst

BR Belletryst Fallen Inspiration piece An incomplete story By Urmilla Khanna Response The sheaths of fallen leaves rustled under her feet. The weather was balmy, and yet there was a chill …

 

Rachel Morton and
Elizabeth Cordes

Rachel Morton and
Elizabeth Cordes

Rachel Morton Response End of an Era By Elizabeth Cordes Inspiration piece The smattering of red and orange crunch under my feet as I pass the nearly bare maple tree. I pause to …

 

Cat Ross and Bonnie Lebesch

Cat Ross and Bonnie Lebesch

Bonnie Lebesch Blue Undersea Garden Inspiration Piece Tugboat By Cat Ross Response Keeping time with all the rest, we dive into the world we made. No map, tense, or chaperone, just apprehensive, sweaty hands. We give …

 

Meghan E. Hunt and Dani Harris

Meghan E. Hunt and Dani Harris

Meghan E. Hunt Autumn Ballet in Red Nikon CoolPix Digital Camera Response a dance of autumn By Dani Harris Inspiration Piece the leaves giggle, rustling to cover the sound as they glide through …

 

Paula Lantz and Rebecca Harris

Paula Lantz and Rebecca Harris

“Baby DIshes” was inspired by Paula Lantz’s bold and brilliant “Red Rumor” — while the inspiration piece conjured so many images and thoughts, the focus on one relatively meek and mild experience/ritual — although certainly bold in it’s own way– or seemed a perfect juxtaposition.

 

John Lewis and Helen Whittaker

John Lewis and Helen Whittaker

“Be Like Jesus” Song by John Lewis Be Like Jesus Response Group By Helen Whittaker Inspiration piece Hey, buddy, is this seat taken? Mind if I sit down? Thanks. Is that the …

 

Helen Whittaker and John Lewis

Helen Whittaker and John Lewis

John Lewis Inspiration piece Song: Hiding in the shadows hiding in the shadows In the shadows By Helen Whittaker Response Beside a tranquil sea where nothing lives And craters cast their shadows on …

 

Greg Adkins and Frank Gibson

Greg Adkins and Frank Gibson

Frank Gibson Inspiration piece Greg Adkins Response Piece The bombs always sounded like drums. Heavy, deep kettle drums. The difference was that these drums didn’t just sound …

 

Helen Whittaker and Quentin Paquette

Helen Whittaker and Quentin Paquette

Helen Whittaker The girl with kaleidoscope eyes Response Mortlake Terrace By Quentin Paquette Inspiration piece I’d only closed my eyes for a moment. I’d found a place to sit in the …

 

Robin Peace and Jim Tretick

Robin Peace and Jim Tretick

Jim Tretick Inspiration Piece My 35th Birthday By Robin R. Peace Response There is power in water – In its stillness, in its rage.  I am awed and humbled before …

 

Donna Gagnon and Lauren Flax

Donna Gagnon and Lauren Flax

(response piece by Lauren Flax) Gone for Less by Donna Gagnon (inspiration piece) his heart on a shelf, no sticker indicating selling price reflected in a shop window: little-girl eyes swimming, a tongue …

 

Bonnie Lebesch and Kevin Craig

Bonnie Lebesch and Kevin Craig

Bonnie Lebesch And We’ll Dance Acrylic on panel Response And We’ll Dance By Kevin Craig Inspiration piece And we’ll dance, the sea foam waltz we knew when we were young, our …

 

Delores Ekberg and Heidi Mordhorst

Delores Ekberg and Heidi Mordhorst

Delores Ekberg  | Inspiration Piece Willowriver blossoms in autumn from crumpled trunks rootrippled river from wrinkled tips of twigs hangs lowswinging among elderly leaves dripping dry mineral hues falls to ground lies in brittle layers sinking to …

 

Amanda C. Brainerd and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Amanda C. Brainerd and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Amanda C. Brainerd Response Word Blanket By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece I cover myself with a blanket of words. Miracle Lullaby Storm I quilted each consonant into this cloth. Each vowel is keeping me …

 

Jozelle Dyer and BR Belletryst

Jozelle Dyer and BR Belletryst

BR Belletryst Cherry Inspiration piece Sherry By Jozelle Dyer Response 1. While her father fished, and her mother labored over her famous sour cherry jam, Sherry was touching, with some reverence, the …

 

Isabel Levin and Charlotte Rauner

Isabel Levin and Charlotte Rauner

Isabel Levin Acrylic painting Response I might have made a mess By Charlotte Rauner Inspiration piece Excuse me, well, I’d like to say. But what to say? That I hate Hate? Know nothing …

 

Lauren Flax and Donna Gagnon

Lauren Flax and Donna Gagnon

Lauren Flax Ghostbird Inspiration piece Hush … I see a ghostbird By Donna Gagnon Response he liked to strike, leaving handprints on my face harsh outlines of hatred under that handsome face uncertainty shook …

 

Kevin Craig and Bonnie Lebesch

Kevin Craig and Bonnie Lebesch

Bonnie Lebesch Inspiration Piece A Universe Born By Kevin Craig Response A universe unravels, spirals into motion. Tectonic shifts send galaxies wandering aimless. Light begets light as satellites collide. Stars blink in one-two time in the distant …

 

Dorothy Bendel and Carey Davis

Dorothy Bendel and Carey Davis

Carey Davis Inspiration Piece Flood By Dorothy Bendel Response Piece It rises up to the porch, ripe and hot trombones and swaying hips. – I watch and listen, tucked away behind hollow squares framed by wood blistered by …

 

Peg Sullivan and Brian MacDonald

Peg Sullivan and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Passion can begin with something as simple as a Dixie cup, on a warm summer’s evening, and a bush full of wild blueberries, …

 

Jewel Beth Davis and
Michelle Wallace

Jewel Beth Davis and
Michelle Wallace

What’s a girl to do when the world may be ending?

 

Lené Gary and Sylvia Light

Lené Gary and Sylvia Light

Lené Gary between the steps Response From Manasquan with love By Sylvia Light Inspiration Piece I was happy, and walking a little more quickly than usual, because we had just arrived …

 

Lené Gary and Amy Souza

Lené Gary and Amy Souza

Lené Gary the way it comes Response Every Angel By Amy Souza Inspiration Piece Every angel is terrible. They like to remind us who we are, who we’ve been, show us …

 

Amaryllis Holloway and Jean Gordon

Amaryllis Holloway and Jean Gordon

Shadows Jean Gordon Inspiration Piece Enduring Love Amaryllis H Reponse They vowed to love each other forever. A soft spoken man with few belongings offered his heart and soul