Author: Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr and Cristal Brawley

Diane Mayr and Cristal Brawley

Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Stability Not Stabile-ity By Diane Mayr Response “The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning. Familiarization is necessary.” — Alexander Calder It looked …

 

Diane Mayr and Lisa L. Leibow

Diane Mayr and Lisa L. Leibow

Diane Mayr “If We Go Any Slower, We’ll Be Going Backwards” Digital collage Response Girls Are Flyers By Lisa L. Leibow Inspiration piece It was so cold, Chapman Pond had frozen over. …

 

Diane Mayr and Anne-Marie Ross

Diane Mayr and Anne-Marie Ross

Diane Mayr “Beasts” Digital collage Response I Know Where the Bodies Accrue Freezer Burn By Anne-Marie Ross Inspiration piece One eye sees one eye remembers. The mouth tears flesh flashes back to when it reached only …

 

Diane Mayr and Meg Max

Diane Mayr and Meg Max

Diane Mayr “Terra in Cognita” Response Meg Max Motherhood in Maps Inspiration piece Motherhood In Maps Enjoy every second of this, here’s your map a grocery list, forgotten. They grow up so fast, here’s …

 

Diane Mayr and Paula Lantz

Diane Mayr and Paula Lantz

Paula Lantz Out of My Window! Inspiration piece On the Bay By Diane Mayr Response What was she thinking inviting me along on the Sunfish that day? She, all of fifteen, was a practiced sailor. I …

 

Diane Mayr and Shalini Rana

Diane Mayr and Shalini Rana

Diane Mayr “The Right Tool for the Job” Response Sister, the Fly That’s Never Near Walls, and Other Things We Are By Shalini Rana Inspiration piece She’s a splash of red …

 

Dominic Mazzilli and Diane Mayr

Dominic Mazzilli and Diane Mayr

Dominic Mazzilli Response Diane Mayr “New England Beach” Inspiration piece New England Beach Icy waters steal one’s breath. Every surface shimmers. Pier fries in a paper cone splashed with cider vinegar. Sloshing cups of chunky …

 

Diane Mayr and Dominic Mazzilli

Diane Mayr and Dominic Mazzilli

Dominic Mazzilli Inspiration piece Diane Mayr “Collateral Damage” Response COLLATERAL DAMAGE Smoke obscures the reality. The illustration of human creativity and factual narrative is released from its paper and board covers only to disperse, as ash–the end product of incomplete …

 

Diane Mayr and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Diane Mayr and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Diane Mayr “A Scheme of Green” Response Cabin Time By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Opening the chalet door The forest looms encircling all And I dot like in the scheme of green Sluice into …

 

Diane Mayr and Janet Buell

Diane Mayr and Janet Buell

Janet Buell Ravens in Snow watercolor and colored pencils on watercolor paper. 6” x 8” Inspiration piece Diane Mayr Ravens in Snow: three cherita Response Ravens in Snow: three cherita we humans must …

 

Janet Buell and Diane Mayr

Janet Buell and Diane Mayr

Janet Buell February Couture Sennelier soft pastels on black paper. 6” x 8” Response Diane Mayr February Dusk Inspiration piece February Dusk Dusty rose embroidered in ice blue. The designing moon peers proudly upon a gown resplendent with crystals. “Will you let me …

 

Mary Hill and Diane Mayr

Mary Hill and Diane Mayr

Mary Hill “Done with moving: Relaxing” Response Diane Mayr Untitled cherita Inspiration piece packing to go no room in the cardboard boxes what remains to pack needs only the space between her ears —————————————— Note: All of the …

 

Diane Mayr and Mary Hill

Diane Mayr and Mary Hill

Mary Hill Purple & Gold Landscape 2 Inspiration piece Diane Mayr Paradise, 2018 Response Paradise, 2018: a pair of cherita “It will take a while. But it will get better. It always …

 

Diane Mayr and Jonathan Ottke

Diane Mayr and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke Galileo Inspiration piece Diane Mayr In the Wood Response In the Wood Diseased and dying it leans southward ruffled with brackets laced with molds. What was once vitally green now has a vividly colorful life of another …

 

Diane Mayr and Rachel Brown

Diane Mayr and Rachel Brown

Diane Mayr “That Dirt” Response Rachel Brown Fog Inspiration piece His forehead pressed against the window, and he breathed hard against the glass pane. The train swayed slightly as it curved …

 

Robert Haydon Jones and Diane Mayr

Robert Haydon Jones and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr Buzzcut Inspiration piece Robert Haydon Jones Lord Jim’s Little Finger Response Lord Jim’s Little Finger By Robert Haydon Jones The trouble started when Billy, his eldest son, dug into the family’s …

 

Diane Mayr and Robert Haydon Jones

Diane Mayr and Robert Haydon Jones

Diane Mayr The Plague Response Robert Haydon Jones Letter from Norway Inspiration piece Letter from Norway By Robert Haydon Jones Terry Moran had always enjoyed an unfair advantage as a handsome man, but …

 

Diane Mayr and Lisa Kilhefner

Diane Mayr and Lisa Kilhefner

Diane Mayr She Speaks Snow response Lisa Kilhefner New York Inspiration piece New York By Lisa Kilhefner She sneezes; his heart wrinkles in a metal trashcan on the corner of the room. He weeps, …

 

Rebecca Smolen and Diane Mayr

Rebecca Smolen and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr It’s Always About Man Inspiration piece Rebecca Smolen The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Response The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Food and drink within Apples are quite the …

 

Diane Mayr and Rebecca Smolen

Diane Mayr and Rebecca Smolen

Diane Mayr The Reason Why Response Rebecca Smolen Van Gogh Could See It Inspiration piece Van Gogh Could See It If you were to really look at a fading sun disintegrating into the horizon, its’ …

 

Diane Mayr and Eleanor Marie Lattner

Diane Mayr and Eleanor Marie Lattner

Diane Mayr “What I Know” Response “The Silent Valley” By Eleanor Marie Lattner Inspiration piece The Silent Valley There is a cavalry from afar; I can hear their haunted hooves when they search the …

 

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr “I Try Not to Act Bitter” Response Sometimes I Lie By Amy Souza Inspiration piece I picked snap peas in the rain and Dan said I looked miserable No difference …

 

Diane Mayr and Leslie Grollman

Diane Mayr and Leslie Grollman

Diane Mayr “Sock Ideologies” Response my heart fell out  /  an aftermath By Leslie Grollman Inspiration piece Because Zachary Schomburg’s poem ‘Haircuts’ & the performance of it at Poetry Press Week …

 

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr “Double Meaning” Response Fury Is a Crisis By Amy Souza Inspiration piece It’s said that in relationship we anticipate another’s needs. We understand things about them that they can’t …

 

Diane Mayr and Robin R. Peace

Diane Mayr and Robin R. Peace

Diane Mayr “A Hiss” Response Digital collage (“Self Portrait with Charlotte Berend and a Glass of Champagne” by Lovis Corinth; lithograph by Pierre Bonnard). #149 By Robin R. …